Information and communication technologies boast an “anytime, anywhere” convenience. But how is their daily use constrained by financial, spatial, and temporal factors?
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How Twitter’s platform architecture, ownership, and regulation shapes user behavior, opinion formation, and polarization within the U.S. political sphere.
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Youth political participation is at an all-time high–it’s how people are participating that we should be worried about.
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Exploring brand activism’s role in brand identity and perceived authenticity, using Ben & Jerry’s and Bud Light campaigns and brand guidelines as case studies.
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Proposed rebrand of Apple Music including brand audit, competitive analysis, and suggestions for a refined brand identity.
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Exploring how fans negotiate emotional complexity and meaning-making through community and identity formation, negotiated authenticity, and shifting power relations.
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A critical discussion of the claim that the internet has revolutionized our everyday lives, specifically in relation to sociability and time pressures.
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A critical discussion of the ways in which television audiences make sense of reality programming in today’s increasingly hybrid and disjointed media environment.
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A Times-style restaurant review for Little Star in Charlottesville, Virginia. (RIP)
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Using various sociological frameworks and semester-long research, I demonstrate the immense capabilities of TikTok as an emergent music marketing tool.
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A 5-Episode Podcast Series Discussing Celebrity Culture and Media, Co-Hosted by Yours Truly.
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A sample album press release written for LAUV’s upcoming “~how i'm feeling world tour~”.
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Sound design project 4: using what you have learned this semester, use digital to performer to re-design the audio for a movie clip or music video.
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Sound Design Project 3: Use Logic to create a soundscape based off of an abstract painting.
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Sound Design Project 2: Use Digital Performer to create a realistic sound environment.
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Sound Design Project 1: Edit a song down to between 45-60 seconds, while preserving the integrity of the original.
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How Nicki Minaj has subverted ideas of femininity, sexuality and gender roles throughout her career, ultimately proving herself as the Queen.
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How Britain’s biggest boybands demonstrate global changes in fandom, technology and the music industry since the sixties.
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Assignment: Review a popular hip-hop album from the ‘80s in the present tense, i.e. in the time period that the album was released.
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The YouTube friend group known as The Vlog Squad is the new ensemble sitcom cast. And each supporting character has their own show, too.
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