Week 6 rewrite 1
The three texts I was presented with this week were very engaging and informative. Out of the two opinion pieces and one journal, I enjoyed reading and retained the most information from the journal article; 'Perceptions of bias, and interpretation of news.' I initially deemed the piece as daunting due to its length and initial, difficult-to-digest language. However, this worry turned to interest as they discussed the psychology of digital literacy and the interviewee's personal opinions on their own biases; their 'trust in news, bias in news stories, and personal worldviews.' They discuss selective exposure, a topic that was always piqued my interest but I have never read up on so I was interested to read about it. We often indulge in the idea that everyone is on the 'same side of the internet',' that we are all being fed the same political media, this is incredibly untrue and we learn more about that fact in this journal. We see news and opinions that...