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Position Paper 2

  Covid-19 and Its Effect on International Media Usage The coronavirus pandemic changed many parts of our daily lives, our media usage included. From spending month in shutdowns with not much else to do but occupy our time with technology, to spending quarantines scrolling through social media, and even education turning remote, media became a necessity in most of our lives. Personally, I remember days during the shutdown where I took advantage of streaming services and laid on the couch, for longer than I would like to admit, watching TV. Additionally, during my 10 day quarantine when I was COVID-19 positive, I spent every hour that I was not sleeping either streaming a show, scrolling through social media, or attending lectures over my computer. At the start of 2020, we could have never imagined just how much our lives and global media usage would come to be impacted over the next year. One of the biggest issues relating to the increase in media usage because of the coronavirus...