Before I took this class, I think it’s safe to say that my presence on Twitter was non-existent. When I started at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, my professors pushed me to make a Twitter account, saying that it was crucial in order to get a job. For a year, I posted quotes […]
Read more "In hindsight: What #NHsmc taught me"On April 10th, 2017, Cedric Anderson opened fire inside an elementary school classroom in San Bernardino, California, killing Karen Smith, whom he was separated from, and one of her young students before turning a revolver on himself. People took to Twitter to express their emotions, and most of them used #SanBernardino to enter into discussion […]
Read more "Guns don’t kill people – do they?"Everyone who have ever worked in the service industry have had a customer who definitely wasn’t right – if they deny it, they are lying. I wanted to create a meme that a lot of people could relate to, and I thought about when I was in high school and worked nights at a Blockbuster, […]
Read more "#DearCustomer – A tribute to hard working people"We chose the hashtag #WomensMarch which had 12,017,305 Twitter results. First, we ran a search for all different ways the Women’s March on Washington was talked about in January to find the most popular hashtag. View post on imgur.com View post on imgur.com As you can see from the chart above, the two most popular […]
Read more "I’m a nasty girl #WomensMarch"When people use the word ‘Bae’, I cringe. But not necessarily for the same reason as you do. American singer Pharrell made this three letter word very popular back in 2014, and all of a sudden you couldn’t turn around without encountering someone’s bae or some bae meal or some bae bae. But what does Bae […]
Read more "What does ‘bae’ actually mean?"When I wake up in the morning, the first light striking my face isn’t the soft white light from the sky, but the bright blue HEV-light from my phone, which is resting a few inches from my pillow as a drowsy lover, always within reach. A rush of dopamine washes over me as I, still […]
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