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For the self/group video there were four themes; they included separation, politics, abstract and communication. Within separation the group has to “show something that denotes alienation or separation.” Within politics the group has to “show something that denotes or represents political believes; this can show something that is not a ‘political party’ based, but more of a political dynamic. This can be the politics of being a college student, of socializing in the job market etc. Within the abstract group, the group has to “show something that deviates from reality and is somewhat surreal in nature.” Within communication the group has to visually communicate a form of communication.” For the group assignment communication was assigned to Shylande, Jessica, Alexis and Zack. As a group we chose to portray story, taking inspiration from the stages of grief to communicate how many students feel when they have assignments due; titling the assignment due date. The stages represented wer...

Twitter is a social media and networking platform where thousands of people communicate through short messages called tweets. Tweets are messages with the capacity of 280 characters (not words! but characters, this includes letters spaces numbers and symbols) to anyone who follows you. Twitter/tweeting can be described as a form of microblogging, many use the platform to express themselves, promote a business or a cause, report news and many more. “The real value of Twitter it provides a stream of quick updates from friends, family, scholars, news journalist, and experts it empowers people to become amateur journalist of life describing, and sharing something that they find interesting about their day.” Many news companies use Twitter as a way to report news, as well as every day people to describe what’s going on around them. This shows how today twitter is a very useful platform that can be used beyond socializing in marketing; Twitter is useful as a journalistic, political, and or...