When trying to think of a piece of media from this week, I was immediately drawn to an article I read about the banning of the social media platform TikTok. It was published by NPR, a news source that has left Twitter because of Elon Musk. It was just that

This work of art comes from Amplifier. org, a nonprofit website that helps build art and media to amplify movements. These works are downloadable which is great for educational use and really do cover a wide range of movements occurring across the US and the world from economics to sustainability

It was incredibly difficult for me to select just one song to focus on for this post. Every time I thought about writing it, I thought of a new song and the nuances I could discuss with it. Ultimately, I chose to analyze “King” by Florence + the Machine is the

I saw the amazing pools ad from Airbnb on a few of my platforms. Using Coolio's song and stills of water slide fun, Airbnb convinces us to use their business to plan our next sweet vacay. This ad is simple. Song and stills and not a lot of

As discussed in my media journal, here is a link to Ken and Barbie on ice, a toy from 1998 that I owned. Created by Mattel to capture the buzz of the winter Olympics, this add has Tara Lipinski, and apparently we're cheering for her. And I assume

In “Yeah, actually, your plastic coffee pod may not be great for the climate,” NPR writer Julia Simon responds to articles from this past week that claimed coffee pods, like ones used in Keurigs, have a smaller carbon footprint. If you read the article, Simon discusses how these headlines are