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 Nabeel Shariff Introduction About Me: I am Nabel Jameel Shariff, and I am a student of life who loves to and is striving to learn everything as much as possible. Currently, I am focusing on Communications at LBCC and later at OSU, Godwilling. For the last 10 years, I have studied Computer Science, Business Entrepreneurship, and Kinisiology, and a little bit of everything (including things like Psychology and Music Production). Lately, with the advent of current AI and seeing how the world and its needs are evolving, I have chosen to focus on Media and Communications, because I see effective communication to be the future of humanity.  Once we have all the cool and powerful technology, and we have made so much progress in scientia and sapentia, what humanity will need is the ability to effectively communicate and share, and maintain all that we have built. We are the only species that, due to ineffective communication, propaganda, and using our built technologies as weapons, w...

 Hello reader(s), this blog is about media literacy: A way of looking critically at the media: •Description - What do you see? Literal good vs evil type stuff •Analysis - Patterns? Lying by omission and otherwise, taking things for granted, burying facts, rewriting history, predatory exploitation of human negligence, etc. •Interpretation - What does it mean? So what? Explores the ideas of what side of history we will be on, who we really are, what type of characters we have, what type of choices we are making, and what we value as humans and humanity. Our media shows us a reflection of ourselves and our values as individuals, families, neighborhoods, communities, societies, states, nations, continents, and a whole human race. What kind of a people are we? From the perspective of the rest of the universe, where do we stand? Are we friend or foe? Are we beautiful or ugly? Are we amicable or dangerous? How intelligent are we really? •Evaluation - Good or bad? Without an objective mora...