No Escaping My Digital Prison






From: Drake McDonald Davis
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:12 PM
To: ddavis3@sfsu.edu
Subject: No Escaping My Digital Prison

Trying to keep a positive attitude, I am a curmudgeon--besides virtue of my age--when it comes to all things digital. Now that Google has once again foisted itself upon me, prompting to create an account, I was forced to use my school email account; unfortunately, trying to employ my super-uber-secret-server in the Netherlands which a FISA Court can't touch, Startmail.com account, I am once again taken-to-heal. Apparently, I cannot get the password to work for the fourth password reset in a month.

...because of the layers of security, it takes twelve hours to send a reset!

It was just two nights ago, Amazon.com insisted I did not have an account for hours. After taking to the phone--becoming so tired of it all--I did not look for their trap; failing to select the two-day shipping [Prime] I had paid for last semester, I now must wait five days for my books.
Already having swayed far afield and off-to-the-races in an ADHD huff, I will now try to tackle the subject matter briefly:

Why Study Media comes to mind and the answer is "... because of their sheer ubiquity [p.13]". Although several years since publication, this textbook addresses the phenomena of everyone having had become the media via social media. Without a doubt, Ott and Mack are spot-on with the statement, "More than ever before, the mass media have replaced families as caretakers, churches as arbiters of cultural values, schools as sites of education, and the state as public agenda-setters" [p.13.] Is this a positive development? Regardless, it is a factual statement.

Interestingly, I find I have much in common ideologically with the authors' contentions thus far. I have been a consumer of the annual report, Project Censored intermittently over the last twenty years, and I do find the proclamation that the skeptical, humanistic approach regarding Critical Media Studies to be analogous with my world view.

Finally, seeing Ambition: social Justice, triggered my "Oh no...safe-space-seeking S.J.W.s...certainly, these groups must be Soro's funded NGOs and Foundations, Drake"

Wrong again, oh-contrarian!

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237

Wrapping-up, I promise not to go long on future assignments and developing a more concise style of writing [incorporating proper APA--copying materials into a usable APA binder that is not Purdue OWL or that blue BECA 300 textbook--will happen this weekend] is one of my goals for the class. Nevertheless, I will miss using my creative writing transitions no matter how fascinating this class.

...One final thought on Feminism and the portrayal of women "...reinforcing or challenging gender or sexual stereotypes," [p.17] and maybe I will find some agreement from Professor Drennan on my closing reflection:

Attending a university where I am constantly having to endure negative and racist statements referencing Old White Males--I can take it and abhor censorship on all levels--do any of these peer reviewed studies of mass media and popular culture examine the negative portrayal of men on TV sitcoms? Other than local news and the occasional intellectually stimulating programs, I had given-up on television even before the Bush Crime Family Goldman-Sach'd [sic] the economy sending my once middle-class life into a tail-spin. 

...After all, waking-up in my 10x5 storage unit every morning, I keep looking for that elusive white-privilege but seem to have misplaced it!

Drake M. Davis

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