Many activities held to celebrate to say #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty

Many activities held to celebrate to say #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty Queen celebrates her 90th birthday with cherry green outfits. Rainbow queen is no doubt credited to Queen Elizabeth. She has no fear of wearing audacious, sharp and bright color in grace style. Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 90th birthday at Windsor Castle: https://t.co/FDGEGrW79n #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty pic.twitter.com/rvdQmMIOPS — E! […]

Syracuse Remembers its “Pearl”

The Syracuse community lost a cherished member today. Dwayne “Pearl” Washington passed away at the age of 52. Here’s how he was remembered by the campus community: God bless the Pearl, Dwayne Washington. #31 hangs in the rafters at my alma mater @Cuse, and in our hearts. #CuseFamily — Vice President Biden (@VP) April 20, […]

#IFeelOldWhen

I took a look at the hashtag #IFeelOldWhen to see how different people on Twitter have been using it when sharing their own thoughts on the subject. I started by tweeting my own about graduating in the fall and then was extremely upset to see that someone had posted something about graduating high school. Different people […]

#Catmaggedon

Around the Grammys, the non profit organization the Truth initiative released a commercial that started a conversation on twitter. The commercial brought the attention to the internet that cigarettes are killing cats, and smoking = no cats = no cat videos. The commercial caused a trending hashtag on twitter #Catmaggedon and here are some tweets […]

Advice for 2016 Presidential Candidates

I’ve spent the last week on the presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire. It seems that the Media Richness Theory aligns with the strategy of candidates that did well in the New Hampshire primaries. My advice to the candidates is to have as much in-person communication with the voters and when that is not possible, […]

Behind the Bern

This year’s election season has been one of bold campaign moves, and not from just one candidate in particular. It’s been an election full of hashtags – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, #ImWithHer, #FeeltheBern and now, #NeverTrump. Bernie Sanders has been neck and neck with Donald Trump in the hashtag game, with several of his being popular campaign tools. […]

“White People’s Choice Awards” #OscarsSoWhite

It is the 88th Annual Academy Awards and Hollywood still has a diversity issue. Leading up to the Oscars this past Sunday, many wondered if this particular stigma would be addressed. Sure enough, host Chris Rock, started his witty monologue with sharp quips associating the award show to “White People’s Choice Awards.” The trending hashtag now […]

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 […]

The Impact of Modern Social Media on Our Relationships

“Human beings yearn for connection and belonging. Numerous studies have linked social support to positive mental health.” (Bonnano) However, as social media rises as a trend, it seems as if it is almost replacing real, social interactions/relationships with virtual and online communication. With this rising trend, it is starting to concern people as real- life relationships […]

I talked to someone famous on social media and here’s what happened

Social media are a permanent part of everyone’s lives and they’re almost impossible to get away from. While sources contradict each other and claim social media are both good and terrible, it’s mostly about how we navigate these sites and the way we interact on them. For example, I was called nasty names anonymously on […]

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