John Merrick

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[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@chucksphillips I think that this statement is becoming more and more true. There is a major market of people@becoming sick with the idea of cancel culture. This growing demand will likely cause this saying to become more and more true in coming years. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@CoreyBenedict7 Often it comes off as pandering in Oder to drive up a profit. However, it can sometimes be used properly and ethically to serve to garnering profit as well as providing awareness for disadvantaged groups. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

Regarding the article about race ads, do you think that companies using race strategically in advertising is immoral and exploitation, or is it a viable strategy to attract customers? #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

#UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@etalaj12 As you stated in the end of your tweet, these notions are engrained in our society. Being a societal issue, because these algorithms model what individuals in a society search, it will be very hard to change those algorithms without action directly in the code. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@HeathJoubert In my personal opinion, reactive PR is much more important. Any company can create a decent PR campaign when there is no pressure of time. With reactive PR, the time constraints of the response make this kind of PR harder and seeming more genuine. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

One of our articles discussed how companies adapted to the onset of social media. With the way data collection has allowed for pinpoint advertisements, do you think that this method of advertising is beneficial for the user or not? #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@JakeSteeves9 To promote products in the best way possible, advertisers should use an ethical approach. By ethical, I mean they should be allowed to use surface level information, which is accessible and not private, to be used to personalize advertisements for certain people. #UWJ201 #303

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Although there are places for both the peripheral and central routes, do you believe that the superficial and manipulative nature of peripheral route marketing means that we should, as a society, try to move on to more central route processing? #303 #UWJ201

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@ShihCatherine It is not entirely ethical. These practices prey on the fact that those who are marketed to do not understand that they’re being profiled. In a field where it is the duty to inform, leaving out information to drive in a profit would be hypocritical. #303 #UWJ201

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

Facebooks motto, “Move fast, break things,” rocketed them into success. Do you think all companies across all fields would benefit from this? Or is it specific to online companies? #303 #UWJ201

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@GracenSpritka U think that the popularity of news sources comes from the accessibility and popularity of the platform, however this accessibility trades ease of access for quality of information. Therefore, I think this is bad. #303 #UWJ201

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@aliceehill Although it may help educate some folks slightly, as we know about knowledge gaps and technology, those who are more well off will always utilize tech better. Therefore, this will have little effect on spanning the knowledge gap in America #303 #UWJ201

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As discussed in one of our weekly articles, the cause of polarization in political media is a business decision which exploits invoking certain identities to appeal to certain demographics that are interested in the content. Do you agree with their assertion? #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@letscher2002 The main driver of this trend is the convenience of online news combined with the prevalence of technology like phones and computers. Nowadays, nearly everyone has these devices, on these devices people can instantly access free news with little effort. #UWJ201 #303

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@kartheiser_owen Yes that is true. However, the stipulation of that study was that the media consumed was political media. The point of the study was to show the result of partisan framing in these articles and how they put off groups who were not intended to consume the content. #UWJ201 #303

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@kaylachilly As described in one of our weekly articles, those who do not care for politics will not consume political news. The only way to increase engagement on these platforms is to increase programs which educate and motivate political initiatives to drive interest. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@kaseysteinn As touched on in Paul Jay’s podcast, much of the decline in American journalism is due to the commercialization of news coverage which has, in the name of pure profit, downsized journalists to a high degree, causing a lower quality and scope of coverage. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@divya_d626 Considering the fact that these large corporations are predominantly owned by white men, it is safe to say that LGBTQ and minority issues will not be of concern to them unless it will yield them a profit. #UWJ201 #303

[John Merrick @Merrick_JohnII]

@jasperlindseyy I think that there is a perception of rural individuals as honest and conservative among suburbanites. From this, many suburbanites say they feel close to them because they tend to be conservative and believe rural individuals to be better people than city dwellers. #UWJ201 #303