Twitter was the first social media that I used. I was intrigued by the limited characters one could use on the platform. Furthermore, the ability to share with people what you were doing or view what others were doing was a fascinating experience to me. Many of my peers thought it was stupid at the …
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Blog to follow: Writing in the Dark
The blog that I follow on a regular basis is called “Writing in the Dark.” The blog( http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/ ) is owned by Tim Waggoner who is a bram stoker award-winning author. He has written over thirty novels along with novellas and three short stories collections. His writing has received honorable mentions as well as finalist mention at …
Can’t Keep My Eyes off of You: An insight into Black Mirror (S5, Ep2)
The social media company, Smithereen, is all too familiar in our industry. This fictional social media company is supposed to represent Twitter. When a smithereen employee (Jaden) was inside his workplace, trying to reach his boss, you can see that an area with a screen filled with hashtags, which is very much like Twitter. There …
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Zappos’s case study overview
Zappos, an online shoe and clothing retailer, is an e-commerce business that wants to deliver happiness to their customers. With that in mind, the company has used their social media platforms to interact with their customers in order to provide excellent customer service. Using the information from social media, the company gathered customer feedback and …
Crisis Communication: Domino’s and social media’s effect on its brand
Two employees from a North Carolina’s Domino store filmed themselves doing disgusting things to a sandwich they made and then sent it out for delivery. These employees uploaded the video on YouTube where it became viral. This occurrence happened in April 2019. Loyal fans notified the company about the video by using social media . …
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“Seeing is believing” is dead, thanks to deepfake
Deepfake was coined in 2017 and really is a new word for digital images that are photoshoped. It is one of the many tools that people are using to create fake news. Since most people are not media literate, these malicious acts will most likely mislead or misinform others and that is a big issue. …
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Caught in the Act: Facebook eavesdrops on users
Facebook has recently made an admission that they have hired human contractors to listen to their users’ recording on Facebook Messenger without their acknowledgment. These users supposedly thought artificial intelligence was the only thing hearing their conversation. Facebook is not the only company guilty of this. It turned out that Amazon used human contractors for …
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Splinternet: The Future of the internet?
Mr. Kaifu Lee, the CEO of China-based venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures, has made quite a prediction regarding the future of the internet. His prediction was that in the next five years there may be two internets; one dominated by China and the other dominated by the United States. Wikipedia defines splinternet as characterization of …
Houston, we have a digital divide problem
Tony and Isabella Ruiz (12 and 11 years old respectively) are at the sidewalk across the street from an elementary school in Houston, which is close to their house. Both are trying to connect to the elementary school’s wireless hot spot. Isabella, especially, wanted to watch her teacher’s math guide on the family smartphone. Why …
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Know your “Nextdoor” neighbors
Serena Romero’s report about Nextdoor was really intriguing. I have never heard of it until she presented it to the class. So, I did further research and discovered Mr. Nirav Tolia’s session at Stanford University about his company on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8166JC1wUbA Mr. Nirav Tolia—when he started Nextdoor—was shocked to find the statistic that 28% of …
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