This essay, from Developing Content for Social Media, focuses on the (fake) product of Pidgen Soap! This assignment was all about market research and considerations of the best use of social media.
Read moreLearning Analytics
This was a very enlightening research project for my Craft of Analytical Writing course. As someone who is fairly entrenched in HIgher Education, I wanted to learn more about the complex relationship between classroom pedagogy and educational technology.
Read moreCreative Writing-“Bone Family”
Here is a piece from my Creative Writing in the Digital Age class. While I minored in Creative Writing during my undergraduate research, I hadn’t really written in years prior to this course. I very much enjoyed learning about using digital spaces as they relate to Creative Projects.
Read more“We are the A”
This essay examines the phenomenon of Football (soccer) Club supporter culture in terms of nationalism and community. Specifically, this essay seeks to understand the intersections of identity, belonging, and “national” allegiance (both literal and metaphorical flag-waving) within association football (largely) and how the sport promotes nationalistic-feelings of belonging within very diverse supporter groups. Through an…
Read morePodcast
The rise of online conspiracy theories during the 2016 Presidential Election demonstrated a few of things: 1) that the Internet was the perfect vehicle for misinformation and was actively used to persuade millions of people to believe fringe ideologies with relatively little effort, 2) that typically moderate individuals were most easily persuaded and brought into…
Read moreTransmedia Storytelling
For this class, I worked with a group to produce a transmedia story! We decided to use the popular game, Sims 4, to tell our story about a trans character who is just trying to be themselves. Playing on the story of Alice and Wonderland, Alicia in Simmerland is just one component of our larger…
Read moreHome Matters
Home Matters is a short documentary film about gentrification in the greater Atlanta Area. This was a challenging project as our professor tasked us with filming in groups in the middle of the pandemic!! So we had to be very creative in conceptualizing and executing the film. Many thanks to my group mates and to…
Read morePecha Kucha–Visual Thinking and Web Design
I am not normally a crier. I shout. I pout. I get really withdrawn and quiet. But rarely do I cry. But the latest project in my Visual Thinking and Web Design course had me in tears. We were tasked with creating a Carte de Visite–a visual calling-card meant to visually represent us in our…
Read more