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Loads of stuff due by tomorrow, some of which I haven't even started on. I think this is going to be a long day/night so coffee needed for sure! ☕☕

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Caught up in things

Caught up in things

Over the last couple of days I have been concentrating on a couple of things, which took my time and I omitted to blog each days happenings. Since the last post I have been dealing with: Assignment SubmissionAssignment FeedbackGetting back into routine after Christmas/New YearLiving without my medicationSorting out my other ventures The assignment was about a case study which included analysis…

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All About Zhainagul Tolemissova

Zhainagul Tolemissova is a senior coordinator of the executive communications program, Global Speaking. Her program is one of the most effective public speaking trainings for communications executives. Over the years, she has mastered excellent teaching skills and worked with executives for hundreds of companies and non-profit organizations.

Zhainagul Tolemissova is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies, well-known public figure, blogger, producer, and filmmaker.

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the devil in our (digitalized) world

The Truth about The Internet

The millennials are celebrating their appeal as a generation that has unprecedented open-minded perspectives. This appeal is gained through maximum utilization of technology which serves access to almost all forms of information. However, do we ever know that their open-minded perspectives are limited? Do we realize that millennials aren’t that open-minded after all in comparison to the former generations due to the invisible barrier that we don’t even know to exist? 

Noah Chomsky explains that there are restraints of information which violently hold humanity’s progress of advances in the spheres like moral and also technology but also in the spheres of politics. These groundbreaking theories of his are all laid in the pages of his book called “Manufacturing Consent”, originally released in the year of 1988. 

The simplistic explanation of his theories is as follows. Firstly, media, which supposedly to be the channel of all information to flow, are controlled by the capitalistic motives. These motives can be instinctively and intuitively developed since media companies start. However, these motives can also be ushered by the relentless competitiveness of the capitalist world. With so many competitors out there, the chance for a media company to strive is getting smaller. Therefore, some companies, in order to increase their audience, take up funding from interested parties.

These parties most of the times are not altruistic, however. The funding that they are giving is so that they have control over the information that can be published by the very companies they are funding. Such funders are usually those of top decision makers in the government or business. The funders can filter the information and decide to share only those information that can cater to their interest. These limitations can range to saving the bad controversies that can destroy their image or more violent ones such as publishing or even creating themselves the controversies that can actually destroy opposition parties. 

These phenomena don’t just happen in the ‘company level,’ but this is widespread and structural systems that are happening all around the world. These ‘evils’ are dictating the information, precious ones, from most of the people. We never know if there are such findings of a fault enough to impeach a president. We never know if there are medicines that can already cure most of the deadliest diseases in this world which information are hidden from us so hospital and health-care providers can keep flourishing. 

This asymmetrical system then only perpetuates the cycle of ‘evil’ that we don’t even know to exist in the very first place. There might be a very close public figure or women/men in power that we hold dear in our hearts who are actually the people who pull the string of the most problematic problems around us.

In conclusion, there is a lot of honest publications we see that we can freely access from the internet but there will be very rarely a fully honest publication that will cover all layers and perspectives of a phenomenon. How do we beat this then, when there is little that we can do to change the system other than a rapid, ultrahigh cost of progressive revolution?

First, we can do this through carefully researching the platforms we are getting information from. Progressive parties are now on the rise. These people who appreciate truths fund or make a company to spread information that has no bias towards any party because they only want the truths to be known to the world. Carefully selecting which platforms like news channels or even youtube channels that are not profit-oriented can make a whole difference of the kind of information we get.

Second, absorb information from experts that have little controversies in the past. Controversies of someone can give us clues if a certain individual is spreading information, although true, only with the purpose of elevating only the parties he or she is interested in or not. 

With these simple two steps then, the fruits of our knowledge are cultivated only with truthful and unbiased information. When we start selecting our sources first, we can then be a more responsible and dependent source of information for others, be that we as a youtube channel owner, or a simple student studying in college.