Micro Scamming
by By Sara Espinosa A couple of months ago, I was approached by a fashion brand on Instagram to “become an ambassador.” It was rather simple. …
Category: Student Posts
Ethics in Advertising: How Far is Too Far?
By: Molly Kavanaugh The Super Bowl is the advertising industry’s biggest stage of the year and with that, brands must put forward their best marketing …
Memes: Evolutionary Genetics and Centuries of Culture
by Drew Hanson All pervasive and ever-present, memes are a cornerstone of current popular culture. But how do these ideas take root and spread? Beginning …
Taking lessons from a Mormon social media fast: A perpetual motion of digital dependency
Hayley Shauklas Last October, eight million Mormon women were invited to put down the phone and take a 10-day social media fast. Of the few …
Call-out Culture: a powerful tool, bullying, or both?
By Alisha Stilwell Spin class and political activism don’t typically go hand-in-hand, but today’s “call-out” or “cancel” culture changed that. SoulCycle touts itself as more …
Social Strategy for Brand Management
by Oleene Perera For our final lecture, we had guest speaker Fatemah Fakhraie, Digital Content at Northwest Community Credit Union. She spoke to consumer engagement …
Strategic Social Media: How to Engage in Unexpected Ways
By Eva Pozarycki We wrapped up the term featuring Fatemeh Fakhraie (@digitalfatemeh) to give us insight into her social media work as a Digital Content …
Is VR’s Greatest Value Actually to Help us Rediscover our Humanity?
Jared Myers This week, our guest speaker, Donna Davis, delivered a stirring talk on the implications of AR/VR for people all over the world. I …
SOCIAL MEDIA AND SELF-ESTEEM
By: Ashleigh Maier In my preteen and early teenage years, the “cool” mode of social media was MySpace. This came with posting statuses, finding coding …
Global Social Media – How Airbnb exists in every corner of the world.
by By: Nuchwara Youngcharoen We have to admit that social media is part of our daily life and become a platform for almost every activities and …