Final Portfolio

Digital media has advanced tremendously and changed the way civic life operates. So much so that it is hard to imagine a life…

Writers Blog 5

One of the things we learned about this week was the SIFT method. I am unsure if I have ever learned this but it does not sound familiar. The steps of SIFT are to stop, investigate the source, find better coverage, and trace claims to the original source. This method is good for checking the…

Writers Blog 2

Digital media has allowed humans to stay connected and have access to almost everything easily and in their hands. Sometimes this ends up doing more harm than good. In our reading for Monday, one of the main ideas was attention structures. One of the main things we discussed was multitasking, which is…

Writers Blog #8

For this week’s writer’s blog, I wanted to focus more on my Medium short feature assignment. I love the idea of this assignment because unfortunately our society and generation do not feel as though they are responsible for being aware of social issues. I think this assignment makes students look…

Writers Blog #1

My biggest insecurity when it comes to writing is that I always think it’s bad. I constantly think my writing sounds horrible and anyone who reads it is going to think I’m illiterate. To improve this area, I think I need to learn how to stop being so overly critical of myself but remember that…

Writers Blog #4

We also talked about social tagging and algorithms. Social tagging is interesting because it’s a way for more people to see your post but…

Ensuring Voting Access

Politics is not the most beloved topic of conversation among people in society. However, as politics only continue to…

Writers Blog #3

This week we talked about a lot of interesting topics concerning digital media. One of the topics that stuck out to me was the conversation about Twitter and white supremacy. I think Twitter is one of the least strict social media apps out there. One of the aspects of this we discussed was filtering…

Writers Blog #6

This week we explored more into digital writing. Something that we talked about was multimodality. In Jones and Hafner chapter 4, they described this as “the practice of combining multiple modes and texts that are made up of a combination of modes in this way are called multimodal texts”. Along with…

Writers Blog 7

This week we talked a lot about different publications and how to pitch our stories. Writing a good pitch is the first step to having a piece published. I found this to be a really good lesson not only for writers but also for the general workforce. There will come a time when most of us have to pitch…