Throughout the course of this class, my tweeting skills have improved a lot and network has grown dramatically. Personally, I never thought that being “social media-savvy” mattered this much, but that wasn’t until I saw a drastic change in the amount of traffic and attention that I receive on Twitter. At the beginning of the semester, […]
Read more "Twitter Personal Growth Analysis"The hashtag that I decided to research and utilize was #MOAB, which, if you’ve been following the news recently, stands for Mother of all Bombs. Surprisingly, this “MOAB” has been stirring quite mixed reactions from people, both in the United States and otherwise. As you can see in one of the Tweets linked below, it’s […]
Read more "#MOAB"The internet controls a lot of things nowadays, but most importantly, it controls relevance. Internet vitality not only implies a lot about who are and what you do, but it also says a lot about how relevant you are in the world— or at least the virtual world. So, when it came to brainstorming an […]
Read more "#CollegeStudentsbeLike"The word “Egypt” is often accompanied with a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions, and is often remembered by it’s depiction in Ancient History textbooks. So, is modern-day Egypt really the stereotypical Egypt?
Read more "How Stereotypical is Egypt?"Personally, social media has impacted my life in many ways, particularly regarding my self-esteem and mental health. Growing up, I was cyberbullied quite a lot through social media platforms such as Facebook and ask.fm. And since this happened during such a critical point in my development as a young woman, I still suffer the repercussions […]
Read more "The Impact of Social Media on my Life"Com 427 WORD CLOUD: In terms of the Word Cloud, the most mentioned words on Twitter included, “Emma Stone”, “Ryan Gosling” and “YouTube”, aside from “Golden Globes 2017”, of course. It was cool to see that a lot of trending mentions were words of a different language, as well, showing the universality and global-reach of […]
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