Instructions For this assignment, analyze and evaluate who owns your media. How do these companies make money from you? How do you feel about this aspect of your media use?Do you feel comfortable with...

Instructions

For this assignment, analyze and evaluate who owns your media. How do these companies make money from you? How do you feel about this aspect of your media use?Do you feel comfortable with the data that companies have for you? Use data to support your argument, such as your Google tracking data, and/or your Web Historian browsing data. Does this exercise make you think of your phone, apps or your data differently? If so, how?

As noted in the syllabus, your paper should have the following elements:

• Be about 400-600 words in length (about 2 full pages double spaced)


• Respond to the writing prompt


• Synthesize information from the class readings and apply it to your own life.
  


• Follow a5 paragraph essay structurewith anintroduction, thesis statement, paragraphs with topic sentences that provide evidence, and a conclusion. (For assistance in writing, please see D2L-->content->writing resources).


• Properlycite at least two sources.These can be our readings, or outside sources. Citations should be noted in parentheses in the text, and listed at the end of the essay under works cited. Pleaseuse APA style.


• Includeone visual (ideally a screenshot of your data) and a caption.The caption should be a complete sentence, located below the visual.