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Al-Arabiya English. (2017, July 19). Lebanese Men Hitting and Tormenting Syrian Man. Retrieved fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1nz32dYZRc Al-Jazeera English.( 2013, August 12). Lebanese Angry over Syrians Taking Jobs. Retrieved fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73AzU5fCmkk&t=4s Al-Jazeera English. (2013. September, 4). Lebanon Anger Grows over Syrian Refugees. Retrieved fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUdcRCYPQWk Al-Jazeera English. (2013, October, 18). Lebanon’s Economy Affected by Syrian Conflict. Retrieved fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIcNhnQigvU UNICEF. (2012, April, 17). Help for Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon. RetrievedContinue reading “DS2”

Sounds that I could not hear in the ambient sound recording: – The wind – My grandmother on a phone call near the kitchen – The sound of leaves swaying in the wind – The sound of the water faucet leaking in the kitchen There are new sounds in the “Ambient Sound” that I didContinue reading “In class Exercise- Sound Mapping”

Fannon (1959) highlights the vitality of radio in the Algerian community. He proposes that there were new attitudes that were adopted by the Algerians when they were attempting to go through liberation, and this technical device aided them in doing so. Some Algerians were resistant to getting a radio and there was no clear reasonContinue reading “Prison Radio”

Oprah Winfrey was recently in the news for partaking in “sex-trafficking of young girls.” These fake news articles were widespread as a form of “misinformation” This article did not have physical evidence or any proof of sources that backed the statement. The content is considered to be c completely false and only applicable so thatContinue reading “Fake News- Oprah Winfrey Sex Trafficking”

My personal example of independent media is Wuora. Quora is a website where questions and answers are posted about absolutely any topic the user desires to ask. Moreover, the website also allows users to edit their posts on the basis of either opinion format or factual format. (Ford) characterizes alternative media as “worldwide emergence ofContinue reading “Alternative + Independent Media”

 According to (Vaidhyanathan, 2018), there consists of three major forms of surveillance: Commercial and political entity exploitation through advertisements: Based on what we reveal on our FB profiles, different companies are able to track our behaviors and purchases through search engines and recommend us products listed through ads on the side of screens. Additionally, governmentsContinue reading “Social Media Facts, Myths, and Threats”

As a cause of losing my phone last month, I had to completely delete all histories on social media platforms, photos, etc.. therefore it was more of a fresh start. I did however notice the amount of surveillance on my last phone. As we are constantly on our phones and our social media platforms becomeContinue reading “My Digital Shadow”

Ball and Snider define the surveillance-industrial complex in terms of the heightened usefulness of them ever since they were emerged from military priorities. As they say, it highlights ” race the connections between the massive multinational conglomerates that manufacture, distribute and promote technologies of ‘surveillance’, and the institutions of social control and civil society.” (Ball& Snider).Continue reading “Surveillance”

Militainment calls for the integration of two words- military and entertainment. This notion refers to how and where the military is celebrated and commemorated; Usually through the medium of news, video games, pop culture, entertainment, militainment is not strictly limited into one box, but can rather branch out intimacy different subcategories. “In terms of news,Continue reading “Militainment”