Reflection Essay

In this class, Digital Writing for Social Action, we talked about how web practices and discourses created significant shifts in American and Global civic life and why conscientious digital citizenship is vital for public writers. We went over interactive media charts, the dangers in YouTube’s…

Hailey

Apr 25, 2022

Blog #10

In class, we prepared to make our Social Media Campaign. As I started thinking about how I was going to approach the media campaign, I had to think about which social media platform I wanted to use. My thoughts were to use Pinterest or Instagram because they both use graphics and look very aesthetic. I…

Hailey

Apr 8, 2022

Social Media Impact on Students

In our society, technology has changed how we interact with one another. An example of that would be social media. In 1969, there were traces of social media with CompServe, and this company made the first commercial internet server made public in the United States. Social…

Hailey

Apr 3, 2022

Blog #9

This week, we discussed different ways to comprehend what we read in various articles or journals. This was very helpful because I’ve been looking for other ways to comprehend better what I’ve been reading, and having a different strategy handed to me in class was helpful. The strategy given to me was a…

Hailey

Mar 27, 2022

Blog #8

In this class this week, we talked about some misleading images. We specifically looked at the image of the man with the rice in waveform. It was interesting to see that image and because I haven’t seen it in years. So we all looked the picture up to see what it was, and it was a prank. I have no idea how he made…

Hailey

Mar 20, 2022

Blog #7

This week in class, we talked about misinformation. One of the topics we honed in on was talking about what misinformation is and different ways to spot the various ways misinformation can spread. It was nice to get some more ideas on how to spot fake websites.

Hailey

Mar 13, 2022

Blog #6

In class this week, we talked about ethics and the internet. I thought that was quite interesting because we were talking about copyright in my media law and ethics class. These two coincide with one another in both similar and different ways. Copyright is when you own the rights to your own work. But there are a…

Hailey

Feb 20, 2022

Blog #5

This week in class, we have discussed what pitching was. It’s not like softball or baseball but as a feature story. I’ve been thinking a lot…

Blog #4 Hate Online

In class we talked about what we thought about the article called “Twitter and White Supremacy, A Love Story” by Jessie Daniels. Twitter is known for news and there could be muddy water in trying to censor misinformation that spreads around. As I read this I thought about how language on the…

Blog #3 Multimedia Appearances

This week we talked about multimedia from paper to the internet. We also talked about how appearances in print or media affects whether people will be interested in what they have to say. We saw an example of the worst websites ever, and I fully understood how visuals can…