The Cultural Resource that I have selected is finding true love through a television show. In spite of a “loneliness epidemic” that is widespread across the U.S., many still cling to the notion that true love is readily available and finding it can be made into a competition that also makes for entertaining television.  When…

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Our world is one big media conglomerate – it’s difficult to go through the day without seeing targeted ads, billboards, Apple News notifications, or window displays fighting for one’s attention. As algorithms become smarter and know us better than we know ourselves (or at least that’s the goal for some companies), it can feel that…

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Conspiracy theories are everywhere. I remember when I was 10 years old, I saw an individual holding a sign detailing that Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson were alive and well. Quite well, in fact, vacationing at a resort in the Bahamas. As we learned from The Language of Persuasion, “the goal of most media messages…

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