When tasked with measuring my social influence, I have to admit, I felt a lot of pressure. I began asking myself questions that would never cross my mind offline: What if I didn’t make enough friends? What if my impressionability is low? What if no one is really engaging with me? But as my numbers […]
Read more "Social Growth By The Numbers"Recently the #DumpDevos and #WeChoose have been trending together on Twitter in efforts to move towards the impeachment of recently elected Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. Most people using the hashtags are linking their tweets to articles detailing a policy of Devos’ they disagree with, like her decision to defend the rollback of protection for […]
Read more "The Twitter Fight for Better Education: #DumpDevos and #WeChoose"So what’s the difference between soul food and southern food? The two are often used interchangeably, but one has a lot more cultural weight than the other.
Read more "What’s the difference between soul food and southern food?"“The Agenda Setting Function of the Mass Media” written by Donald Shaw and Maxwell E. McCombs is testing the plausibility that mass media ultimately force our attention to certain issues—not necessarily telling us what to think, but what to think about as stated in their research. If this is true, then politicians like Cory Booker […]
Read more "The agenda has been set: politicians, take action and take to Twitter"