Carmela Fagone

You know how people will always say "the book was better than the movie"? Well, most of the time they are right. Writers and producers alike can never seem to get it right when it comes to book to film adaptations. This is why I have decided to make it my lifelong goal to successfully and accurately adapt a book into a major motion picture or television series. Reading and film have always been two of my lifelong passions, so what better way to combine the two than by taking on this endeavor. My love for reading was sparked by the surge of dystopian novels that dominated the book market back in the early 2010's. These books included  The Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner and other books of that sort. All of which were adapted into major motion pictures. Some were adapted successfully while others did the books no justice. Film producers tend to stray from the original plot and story line of the books which ends up resulting in an entirely new story. The key to a good

Technology plays a big role in my life and I would say that I have a pretty close relationship with it. Whether that relationship is toxic or good for me, I'm not sure. I tend to spend some time scrolling through different social media platforms when I'm bored which can turn into endless hours of scrolling and scrolling. Technology is there for me when I'm bored or when I don't feel like thinking. I know I can always log into my favorite app and be distracted for a while.  Instagram Account My online presence is also something that I think about a lot. As of right now my presence online isn't anything special. I would say that I have an average amount of followers and engagement throughout all of my social media platforms. I have grown up using social media with Twitter being the first social media account I ever made. Social media has changed a lot over the years and me with it. I used to care about how many likes my Instagram posts got or how many re-tweets I had

 One of the presentations that stood out to me the most was online influencers. Online influencers are a huge part of our society and I feel like they are not talked about enough. The presentation talked about how these online influencers sometimes have a negative effect on young women. This really resonated with me because sometimes it is hard to look at an influencers social media page and compare it to your own. Their whole careers are social media and it is there job to make their lives look as perfect as possible. Social media influencers do almost nothing but somehow still make so much money and have such a hold on us as a society. An influencer could post a video of them lip singing to a song and they could be getting paid upwards of $1,000 just for that one post.  Influencers It makes it hard on regular people to see these influencers doing almost nothing yet getting rewarded for it. The influencer market is only continuing to grow. Tik Tok has led to a huge surge in more onlin

 The innovation that I chose to look at through the lens of the diffusion theory is Netflix. Netflix was one of the first streaming websites and has been the basis for which all streaming sites have copied from. Netflix originally allowed its customers to rent DVD's online and receive them by mail. They later moved fully online and began their online streaming services in 2007. Many people became early adopters of Netflix because they were changing with the times. Netflix single handily put Blockbuster out of business and therefore ended the DVD rental business. As technology started to change so did Netflix. The company was able to keep up with new technological advances and that is why so many people bought into it. The early majority came when Netflix started to release its own original programming, starting with House of Cards. This drew people in and made them want to be apart of what was happening. The late majority came when people realized that DVD's were done for good

News Desert  The poli cy that I chose to research was news deserts. A news desert is a community, either rural or urban, with limited access to credible and comprehensive news and information that feeds democracy at the grassroots level. News deserts have been popping up across the country since the early 2000' s. The t otal number of newspapers in the U.S. went from 8,891 in 2004 to 7,112 in 2018. The numbers have risen significantly since th en. The pandemic and the ensuing recession have greatly accelerated the loss of local news that has been occurring over the past two decades. The issue is not that people don't want to try and save t hese newspapers, it is that there is a serious lack of capitol and funding available to support them. A wide variety of for-profit, nonprofit and publicly funded news organizations have attempted to counter the rise of news deserts but have been unsuccessful. As a result of the pandemic and the changing technology many newspapers have switc

Instagram Article  After watching all of the presentations the one that stood out to me the most was Instagram. Instagram is a photo and video sharing app created in 2010 that has taken the world by storm. It is now owned by Facebook and has become one of the main media platforms used today. Instagram birthed an era of influencers, hashtags, social media marketing and even mental health issues. The idea of Instagram was to be a place where you could connect with family and friends and share your photos and videos with them. Since then it has evolved into a much more prominent and powerful platform. Some people rely on Instagram as their main source of income and use the platform to collaborate with brands and market their products. These people are called influencers. Instagram has also been the cause of lots of mental heath issues. People tend to portray their best selves on the app therefore giving a false idea of what their lives are actually like. Instagram can also be linked to so