Category: Social Media & Networks

  • Developing a Digital Scholarly and Professional Identity

    Developing a Digital Scholarly and Professional Identity

    Below is the approximate transcript of the presentation I delivered as part of the MLA 2018 panel 739. Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity on January 7, 2018 in New York City. I’m Lisa Tagliaferri, I have a PhD in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY, […]

  • 2017 Wins & 2018 Goals!, or a Semester of HASTAC Communications at ASU

    2017 Wins & 2018 Goals!, or a Semester of HASTAC Communications at ASU

    This fall semester, I had the honor of serving as coordinator of the HASTAC Communications Team at Arizona State University. As the Director of Digital Content and Special Programs at the new ASU hub for HASTAC, these past few months have been our official transitional period into co-institutional hub responsibilities, and communications was one of the […]

  • Video Game Violence Linked to Children

    Video Game Violence Linked to Children

      In this report, violence in video games is shown to affect children under the age of 18 in one of two ways. The first way embodies Stuart Hall’s theory of communication and is detrimental to development and growth of a child. The second represents McLuhan’s theory and has transformative effects on children for the better. […]

  • Sensationalism in Social Media

          Throughout the decades, technology has significantly advanced to become a fundamental part of human communication, however, within recent years the problem of sensationalization has become an enormous problem among social media sites, and has darkened the media in a way in which violence and negativity has become the main news source in day […]

  • Biased News Media

    In 1959, the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC), created and implemented what was known as the fairness doctrine (Simmons, 1979).  Basically it was a rule that all television and radio broadcasts had to abide by, a rule that made it so if either of those mediums had a segment about one side of a particular topic, […]

  • Relationships and Social Media: Tinder, Love, and Care

    Relationships and Social Media: Tinder, Love, and Care

    Relationships and social media nowadays tend to go hand-in-hand. I know numerous couples that met through social media or more specifically, a dating app. My partner and I decided to conduct a small experiment using the popular dating app Tinder. This blog will be discussing the details of this humorous yet informative experiment while observing […]

  • Can Online Friendships Last?: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Online Community

    Can Online Friendships Last?: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of an Online Community

    As a child I was always taught to never to talk to strangers, however with the advancement of the Internet, this isn’t the case anymore. Growing up in a digital era, and as a millennial, I started using the Internet at an early age. Because I started using computers when I was young, I started […]

  • “I Know You and I Haven’t Even Met You”: Oversharing on Social Media

    “I know you, and I haven’t even met you”: [Image result for photos of oversharing] Oversharing on Social Media Are you an Over-Sharer? Most people rarely ever realize how much they post on a daily basis and the content of what they actually post. In this new technological age, many individuals have become very consumed […]

  • How Mobile Applications Can Improve Ones’ Work Productivity, Relationships with Family and Friends, and Overall Quality of Life

    How Mobile Applications Can Improve Ones’ Work Productivity, Relationships with Family and Friends, and Overall Quality of Life

    “In the 1990s the internet emerged as a public communications medium, and there were countless commentaries on its social impacts and implications. It took a series of transformations over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s to turn the internet into a popular form of communication” (Abbate, 1999, 181). Mobile Apps: Then and Now […]

  • Where is Social Media Headed?

    Going back in time, the hit TV Show “iCarly” was a great illustration of where we seem to be headed now in our evolution of social media. The nostalgic children’s show influenced several children to want to engage online in the same way they did using the like of YouTube or by simply uploading videos […]