Covello's Blogs

  News deserts are becoming more popular now a day since there are so many people using online technology to get their news. A new dessert is a community that has discontinued using daily newspapers. Over the last 15 years, there has been a huge loss of about 35 billion dollars in ad revenue for newspapers. This has had a huge impact on local newspaper outlets considers 2,000 of them closed. Growing up I have noticed this quite often as when I was younger I always remember my dad reading the daily news and overtime that has slowly stopped. He went from getting all of his news from newspapers to just watching the tv or using his for this information. And I feel that most people have done the same as it is just easier to watch the news than to read about it. Also, I can now just wake up open my phone, and see everything that is going on in the world in seconds. Even though in my option I see electronic news as being more efficient it also can work as a disadvantage. The problem wit...

  After watching Juan Enriquez Ted talk I started to feel like I have heard something similar to it in the past. It reminded me of what my dad used to tell me and that was if you put something online it stays there. He always told me to be careful about what I post because it could affect my future. Juan talked about how tattoos were just like the internet as they both tell a story about who you are as a person. The internet is just like Juan said an “electronic tattoo” that you can’t get rid of. Another great thing he brought up was facial recognition which I even use myself and would have never thought twice about how powerful it could be. If someone were to use it against me and scan my face they could get all my records and information. Also, companies like Google, Facebook, Instagram, and more are finding out so much about us and what we like by tracking our history and what we are interested in. The internet is finding out more and more about us every time we enter it. It imp...

  For the diffusion of innovations, I looked into the flatscreen tv. Flatscreen TVs are very relevant in most people’s homes nowadays but at one point it wasn’t like that. In 1964 the flatscreen was invented at the University of Illinois which would be understood as the inventor’s stage. From there in 1990 this is when the flatscreen TVs would really become popular and have a huge increase in market sales. During this time people that wanted great clarity and picture in their TVs would purchase this product also they began to be less bulky which was nice. But even though some of the people that were buying these TVs most could not because of the price. In 1997 a flat screen tv could go for around $3,821 or even more which was definitely a huge price to pay compared to today. I would say going into 2012 this was when most of the early majority were purchasing TVs or already had one. Tvs were still very expensive during this time costing around $2,680 for a 55-inch flatscreen which w...