In the wake of the recent election, Americans learned just how polarized the country was in terms of its ability to deem a person worthy of their vote. Now that this phase is over, it’s time to get the new set of politicians on the hill whipped into shape. Here is my advice to elected […]
Read more "The Tweets Have It"Sitting in my Space and Race, Body and Diversity, and Political Theory courses this semester, I found myself constantly filtering my thoughts as a means to find the ‘right’ words. It’s hard, for the same reasons why Socrates response to Thrasymachus and Glycoth on justice and happiness, the Harvard Implicate Biased test, and Rattansi’s “New Racisms?” have […]
Read more "Filter"If I’m being honest, when I first thought about the affect that social media has had on me, I tend to think negatively. I do think that in a lot of ways, social media has made many people, myself included, more ignorant to our physical environments, antisocial in nature, and grammatically challenged. However, when I think of all […]
Read more "Blog Post 1"Abstract: Many older communications theories and frameworks can be applied to modern advancements in how organizations, brands, and influential people communicate with one another. In this presentation, two theories (the Attraction, Selection, and Attrition Framework and the Psycholinguistics Theory) will be examined and subsequently applied to the recent phenomenon that is “Social Media Influencers.” This presentation […]
Read more "Social Media Influencers & Communications Theories"This presentation examines two communication theories and its relevance to modern social media. The first is social identity theory, developed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner, which asserts that group membership creates in-group/self-categorization and enhancement in ways that favor the in-group at the expense of the out-group. The second is knowledge gap theory first purposed […]
Read more "Social Identity and Knowledge Gap Theories on Social Media"I remember the days of running home from school, logging into my AOL account and hearing “You’ve Got Mail!” Those days are long gone, but without a doubt I still experience the same urge to login into my social media accounts. Typing in my credentials on any social media platform grants me access to a […]
Read more "How Social Media Made Me A Kardashian"I’ll be the first to admit that growing up I was a late bloomer when it came to getting involved with social media. I was not a MySpace kid and I joined Facebook a lot later than most everyone around me. However, my life transformed when I really began interacting with these platforms. Now I […]
Read more "A Slow Blooming Flower"I’ll be honest – I wasn’t always a huge fan of social media. It took some time (’til 2011, that is) for me to switch over to the dark side. Just made a twitter #FirstTweet — Bethany Bourgault (@BethBourgault) November 30, 2011 I’d always used Facebook as a place to learn about others, not for […]
Read more "My Social Media Journey | Crossing Over to the Dark Side"Social media has changed my life in many ways, for sure. I started to use social media when I was in fifth grade, in 2005. Before that, the way we social with people and the way we obtain information is very limited. At that time, I don’t feel like social is important, and most of […]
Read more "A Social Media Journey of Mine"Being more involved on social media has made me more in tune to current events. Before finding my voice on Twitter, I was incredibly lost within the political sphere. I did not understand big issues or even fully understand just how much politics affected my life and the lives of my friends and family. During […]
Read more "Forming my Opinion, Finding my Voice"