Chelsea's Blog

1, 2, 3, 4… 1, 2, 3, 4… The students counted off to choose their movie project groups. Once everyone figured out who was in their group, then it was time to be assigned topics. The Abstract group, once assigned their topic, got straight to work on trying to define what abstract was. It was a difficult topic, abstract could mean many things. The abstract group had a hard time at first pinning down exactly how they could express it in their videos. They googled the meaning and still were coming up blank as to what it meant and how to portray it. Some ideas they had included: highlighting shapes they see in their everyday lives. This idea was scrapped because finding the same odd shape could possibly be restricting to what you can film. Another idea was emotions and to highlight a certain emotion such a happiness, sadness, etc., but it was decided that wasn’t abstract enough. Finally, the group decided on colors. Each member of the group each chose their favorite color. Chelsea chose ...

A  way in which twitter is used outside of socializing and marketing is through the spread of news due to human’s need to be involved and a part of the conversation. In the article, “How the Boston Marathon explosions reveal the two sides of Twitter” by Simon Ricketts, Ricketts explores Twitter through a journalists lense. Often times as a journalist Ricketts would use Twitter to gather information about breaking stories, such as the Boston Marathon bombing. He explains that Twitter allows for witness accounts, first hand evidence, pictures, soundbites and videos that haven’t already been filtered by journalists or public relations practitioners. However, it is often the case that a lot of the “facts” being tweeted are not proven to be factual. While a tweet may later be proved a fact, that isn’t always the case. Now a days twitter is an upside down funnel. In order to get the true and good information journalists need to be quick to find their information before too many unverifi...