Author Archives: oliviahmacdonald

Imagine waking up in the morning and not picking up your phone immediately. Imagine sitting down for lunch without having your fork in one hand and your phone in the other as you scroll through Instagram. Imagine not over editing a picture and texting your friends to ask them if you should post it online.Continue reading “Blog 20: Theory of Social Media II”

My YouTube video will start out with a video montage of people using social media to communicate to their friends and post cool things on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter. It will be very positive and light. After this there will be a video of one of the girls at home when she reads a tweet about her that isContinue reading “Blog 19: YouTube Script/Outline”

My favorite type of YouTube videos are music videos but with a plot. I could definitely steal music and dramatic effects from music videos to add the my final YouTube video. I could also steal the idea of a story – since my research paper was about social media and depression that comes along withContinue reading “Blog 18: YouTube Video Proposal”

All of the world, social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and many others have connect everyone at the touch of a finger tip. The comfortability and accessibility of social media has become an essential part of our daily lives. Everything we do and post is effected by what society thinks is appropriate andContinue reading “Blog 17: Research Paper Abstract”

Gifs for me are used mostly through text messaging. I tend to not use them as much, but my parents have recently figured out how to send them over text and love to use them. Whenever they text me I end up receiving one or more gifs which is very humorous and adorable. The gifsContinue reading “Blog 15: Gifs”

For my research paper, I want to focus on the relationship between social media and mental health. More specifically, I want to look at anxiety and depression. This includes cyberbullying, examining the fear of missing out through watching things on social media, and creating a profile for yourself that really is you instead of yourContinue reading “Blog 14: Research Proposal”

The situation of politics and persuasion in 2020 through social media is complicated. Nowadays everything is heavily influenced, especially online when you see very biased news profiles and when you have others people who are sharing their opinions. While I think it is great that people feel comfortable sharing their political opinions online in aContinue reading “Blog 13: Persuasion”

An Influencer is someone who promotes a brand or idea for a company or way of life so that others follow along and buy the products or live their life in the same way. There are many social media influencers all over social media platforms, especially instagram. Many of these influencers show off clothes, skinContinue reading “Blog 12: Advertising”

After reading the articles “Panopticism”, “Dressing for the Surveillance Age”, and “A Surveillance Net Blankets China”, I reflected a lot about what’s going on in the world right now due to the pandemic. Privacy is a huge issue now that we are being quarantined in our homes and living on top of one another familyContinue reading “Blog 11: Privacy”

This week I looked at the LaBrant family’s latest YouTube video. This video was about the day that Cole and Savannah spent with Everleigh and Posie before they left for a 3 day trip. I attached the video below and spent my time focusing on the gender roles they play in their lives. In theContinue reading “Blog 10: Netnography Check-In”