Part 1: Influence At the beginning of the semester, I had 198 Twitter followers. I didn’t go on Twitter that much to scroll through, much less to tweet. When I started writing tweets for this class, I got a better feeling for my “Twitter voice” that used the right language that people would engage with. […]
Read more "DM for Collabs: My Influence Growth Analysis"This week, people tweeted the hashtag #GeauxVote, which encouraged people to go vote for the new Louisiana State Governor. The candidates included Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards and Republican Eddie Rispone. The hashtag is a spin off of popular Louisiana sayings like #GeauxTigers, in which people add an -eaux suffix to words to make them […]
Read more "#GeauxVote: The Race for Louisiana State Governor"Objective and Background My objectives for this assignment were to get at least 500 views on my meme on Imgur, and to push out 4+ social media posts in order to promote the meme. In the meme I chose to remix, a user will compare two things, listing a few qualities about that thing. The […]
Read more "Goldfish Meme Campaign Analysis"Boolean search: #climatechange OR #gretathunberg OR #makeamericagretaagain AND climate change OR greta OR thunberg. We wanted to encompass all related hashtags and non-hashtag word mentions to get the widest results. The most retweeted tweet was Candace Owens’, a conservative activist. Her tweet may have generated 26,018 retweets because it’s unique. Few tweets opposed Greta Thunberg’s […]
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Read more "How Good is Impossible Meat?"Some pieces of content that go viral can be very funny and harmless, like a dance challenge or a meme. Others can be more dangerous and intend to manipulate people’s beliefs and ideas. Enter; the internet hoax. Despite whether the hoax ends up being funny or not, the intent to deceive is still present, which […]
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