Kim Kardashian is an internationally recognized media socialite. She stars in her own reality TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, has 136 million followers on Instagram, has a net worth of $350 million, and has around 8-9 million people viewing her Snapchat stories. In one particular Snapchat story, Kim is sharing her trip to …
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Website Self-Assessment
When I first created my website, I had no idea what to do. I remember I went through multiple different themes that WordPress offered and ended up with one that I didn't really like that much. I don't quite remember what I ended up choosing initially, but looking back on my first blog post I …
Final Creative Project
My creative project is a social experiment gauging the public's response to using augmented reality facial filters in a platform where appearance is key. The facial filters are Snapchat filters that change the way you look by either adding fun elements (like dog ears or flames around you) or subtly changing your face to look …
News Response 5 – Another seemingly unimportant image goes viral
For this news response I decided to read "Cracking the Code: A Toddler, an iPad, and a Tweet" by Evan Osnos. This article is basically about how Osnos one day found that his iPad had been taken over by his three year old son. Now, his son doesn't normally use the iPad unless they're on …
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Research paper rough draft
Outline History of “selfies” In this portion of the paper I will be talking about the history of selfies and where it first startedThe first selfie taken is believed to be in 1839 by a chemist and photography enthusiast named Robert Cornelius. He set up a camera in the back of the store he worked …
Creative Project – progress report
I've decided to make my creative project a social experiment. Using the Scientific method (Observation, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Conclusion) I will determine the social effects of the rise of augmented reality facial filters. Observation More and more people are using face filters instead of their natural faces when uploading pictures to social media sites. One …
News Response 4 – Live Streaming
For this news response I read The New Zealand Shooting and the Challenges of Governing Live-Streamed Video by Neima Jahromi. This was published in the aftermath of the terrible Christchurch, New Zealand shooting at two mosques. Over 50 of people were injured or dead. However, the article did not go into the specifics of the …
Annotated Bibliography
Barbour, K & Nguyen, L 2017, “Selfies as expressively authentic identity performance.” First Monday, vol. 22, no. 11, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i11.7745. This article is about whether selfies represent an authentic portrayal of a person. The authors explore what it means to be authentic and through research focus groups found that many thought authenticity to be subjective. This …
News Response 3 – Politics in Video games
The Division 2 and the Severing of Politics from Video Games by Simon Parkin is an article about the separation between politics and entertainment media culture. It begins with talking about The Division 2, a video game that is about a peacekeeping force sent to DC after a terrorist attack. The publisher of the video …
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