Media Law & Literacy

  When the photo sharing platform Instagram was created in 2010 pioneers created a fun and interactive way for people to communicate and connect with others through sharing photos, allowing people to follow their friends and then comment and like photos. The app allows people to express themselves through the photos they take. Whether that be a selfie, a picture of their family, food they love, the list could go on. Instagram allows you to see how others express themselves through what kind of photos are posted to their feed. Early adopters started using this platform because it was another way besides the already popular Facebook and Twitter at the time to connect virtually through a social media app. Another reason is because people wanted to keep up with what was popular at the time and that was Instagram. People wanted a way to share what they were doing through pictures and this allowed them to do so through something as easy as posting a photo. A positive to this app is that it a

       The EOTO presentations were very interesting as we were able to learn so much history about products that we use in our everyday lives. Each group and each presenter was able to teach me at least one thing I did not know about a device/product. One form of media I want to talk about today is about SMS or text messaging.       Every day you see humans holding their cell phones with them everywhere they go. A lot of us can’t leave the house without it in hand. So when SMS messaging became a thing in 1992 people went crazy. I had no clue how this messaging was developed as Julia went on to present that the SMS concept was first developed (1984) and the first text message was sent on   December 3rd, 1992 from Neil Papworth who was a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms. Mobile phones did not have keyboards at the time, so Papworth had to type the message of a PC.       When Julia went on to present the pros and cons of SMS messaging one thing that stood out to me were the cons. H

       For my group each one teach one my focus was on the social media platform Instagram. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger who both graduated from Stanford University. Kevin Systrom was the first man behind this app. Symptom had no formal computer science training when he decided to first develop an app. He learned how to code during his nights and his weeks were spent working at Nextstop. Systrom ended up building a prototype app called Nurbn, which would soon turn into Instagram. During a party one night in California, Systrom met two venture capitalists who learned about his vision and helped him raise $500,000. This allowed him to start building his team for his new entrepreneurial venture. This is where Mike Kreiger comes into play. Mike knew Kevin from both being students at Stanford, he was the first to join Systroms team. After reinventing and redesigning the Burbn they decided to take a step back by stripping Burbn down to just photo, commenting and li