Disposable Relationships

I remember a time in my life when contacting a friend meant speaking to them in person. This was achieved by either sporadic running across neighborhood yards to each other’s doors, memorizing their phone number and dialing at the speed of light, or passing a top secret note in class. Each form of communication involved […]

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Group 3 Presentation

This presentation aims to define two communication theories: medium theory and cultivation theory. In addition, the presenters aim to apply these theories to modern social media to analyze whether medium theory and cultivation theory are relevant. We applied medium theory to Snapchat and LinkedIn and applied the cultivation theory to video games and non-fictional social […]

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How are modern social media impacting your relationships?

Often times, we create “relationships” with people on different forms of social media, before we’ve even met them in person. We interact with countless people on platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. From comments, replies, and direct messages, messages are exchanged literally with just the touch of a few buttons. Because of our generation’s increasing […]

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A Trending Revolution

By Rachel Viggiano (SYRACUSE) Trends have evolved over time in regards to how social media was introduced to our generation. Something that has evolutionized, has quite literally become revolutionized.  The way we communicate with one another has not only drastically changed our relationships, but has also radically opened up a way for us to freely express […]

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Sports in the Media World

Love how #Rewire challenges his audience to pay attention in the social media world and keep up with global events @EthanZ #NHsmc — Julianne Cummings (@CummingsCuse) February 1, 2016 Good luck to all the athletes that are training so hard for these Games! #roadtorio @Rio2016_en pic.twitter.com/hiXIwMDurY — Olympics (@Olympics) January 5, 2016 Ethan Zuckerman states, […]

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