The month of April sure has gone by fast! I went to two different events this month. The first event was the Women in Film and Video job fair which was very intimidating to say the least. Since I don’t much experience in film production I am simply trying to find an internship. Going to this job fair was good for me and I thought it would be a good event to go to for this class as well because in online journalism we focus a lot on the media aspect. After all when you take a good picture or video it greatly adds to the story.
Heres a video that explains what all the job fair is about.
I wasn’t able to take pictures of the actual event, but I did take some pictures of what I received when I got there. Also because I signed up so early I was able to cut the line and I got a special name-tag. For some reason they won’t upload so here there are.
The other event the speaker asked that no pictures or video be taken. I went to an event where the speaker talked about how there are a lot online conspiracies. Dr. Rand Waltzman spoke on “The Truth is Out There. Or is it? Information, Misinformation and Deception in NEW MEDIA.”
Dr. Waltzman talked about how there is a great need for better security for online social media in particular. Online security is at risk here in America because of the laws in place to protect people’s privacy so that makes it hard for security to even happen online. Dr.Waltzman explained that there are a lot of different ways online terrorist are making problems online the first is they make up conspiracies and some people will believe them.
Dr. Walzman also talked about a book called “The dictators guide to the internet” which was funny as it talked about how there are many different ways to scare people through social media use. Walzman also talked about how there was this salt panic back in 2011 in China.
At the end of the lecture there were a lot of different opinions from the audience mostly people thought that when it comes to the interent and cyber security there are really no concreate solutions we just need to keep talking about it in order for solutions to result.
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