Athletes, Twitter, and Freedom of Speech

I wrote this essay during my sophomore year in the spring of 2020. It helps satisfy the first learning objective and was created in order to reflect on how social media opens doors for an even greater amount of opinions and information to be shared. In addition, it touches on how celebrities have a unique position of influence on the public. Throughout the paper I analyze different techniques such as satire and sarcasm in addition to the appeal to ethos, logos, and pathos that can be useful towards the evaluation of sharing personal opinions about controversial topics. Specifically, the target audience was my professor in order to display what I had learned throughout the semester about communication research. In addition, the target audience would also be those who use social media in order to better understand how social media and freedom of speech intersect.