Twitter is one of the most popular social media apps on the internet. It allows you to follow anybody on the app without the need for approval as Facebook requires. Twitter allows you to write 280-character tweets, which anyone who follows you can see. As a user, you can curate…

Over the last few decades, corporate America has decided that it needs to be more inclusive. We see this in their branding, but that does seem to be the extent of their effort. Logos light up with rainbows for pride month and then fade for the other eleven months. This…

The muckrakers were a group of activist journalists. They focused their craft on corruption in politics, vicious business practices, and the conditions of the poorest Americans. Roosevelt would have preferred they covered stories of the advances brought forward in American society. As World War, I began the muckrakers grew unpopular…

As we find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, we are so lucky to have three vaccines with high levels of efficacy. I am no scientist, but I, for one, will take the vaccine as soon as it’s possibly available to me. What I don't understand is this burgeoning…

Trixie Mattel (Brian Firkus) is a drag queen, YouTube star, and independent make-up mogul (Trixie Cosmetics). I first became aware of Trixie Mattel when she was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race season seven. Ultimately, that was not her real rise to fame. Mattel then starred in a World of…

Recently, “Karens” have had a major romp to the front of our collective zeitgeist. “According to a popular meme, Karen is a middle-aged white woman with an asymmetrical bob asking to speak to the manager, who happens to be as entitled as she is ignorant.” (Hunt) Quickly followed the “Kevins,”…

This week the US has seen another extreme weather event. As climate change pummels our nation once again, the GOP is once again blaming and pointing fingers at anyone but themselves. Texas has faced the most difficult of times as the state has seen four inches of snow. Yes —…

We are in a historic period in our nation's history. Not only are we fighting a deadly pandemic, but there has been an attempted insurrection on our Capitol, and now Fmr President Donald Trump has been impeached for a second time. …

Cultivation theory stemmed from the study of mass media and its effects on our beliefs and attitudes. George Gerbner advanced the theory by researching the impacts of television on viewers. In particular, the effects of violence on television audiences. (Morgan et al., 2017, p. 307) For this blog, I want…