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There's something truly bizarre how our social media and stan/fanboy culture has developed in our US elections. We have stan wars over politicians, attempts to put Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris in pop culture scenes.
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I don't necessarily have anxiety disorder, but I have had issues with anxiety and stress many times in the past, so I was curious to see these images, and gather if they're relatable or not. So might as well look at each image one by one.
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Having become more and more acquainted with the Food Network, I've grown attached to food and food-related programs, so I was beyond excited to check out The Sporkful. While I did not grow up in New Jersey, I have vague awareness about the Pork Roll/Taylor Ham controversy, where a famed meat roll synonymous to the city has two different names, depending on where you lived in the city.
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As an enthusiast of film, learning about such obscure film history was an exciting venture, and I was happy to say this did not disappoint a bit. Learning about Van Johnson and his offscreen persona was fascinating.
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Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates' article is an interesting one. Despite its publication in 2012, I feel as if the article is even more relevant more than 3 years after Obama's presidency ended.
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This article by Branch deals is a position paper that tackles the debate over paying college athletes. He takes the position in favor of giving NCAA athletes a portion of the wealth that they help generate for campuses.
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As somebody who loves Sun-Maid, I had to check this article out, and I'm very glad I did. There's plenty of intrigue and suspense for what is a story about raisin companies.
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I don’t know what I thought when I first read the title of this article. I did not think it would be about how members of the Reddit community come together to help a man in federal prison.
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When I was younger I remember going to Blockbuster. My parents would take us every once in a while to pick out a movie.
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All I can say is wow. This story was wild.
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When I saw the title “The Final Days of Eli (Or Not?), I automatically it was going to be about Eli Manning and his final season in the NFL. I was right.
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The title of this article drew me in immediately. Being a die hard baseball and Phillies fan, I knew I had to give this one a read.
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I am writing in response to My Writing Education: A Timeline by George Saunders. This one was in one of Dr. Dwyer's recommended readings, so I figured I would give this one a read.
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by Samuel Trombetta
Houda spread the glue evenly around her face, making the outline of a heart shape before embezzling it with shiny little stones that resemble diamonds. Deciding that her face wasn’t blue enough after layering on some paint, she drew on tears that went to her cheeks which faded into a light red hue.
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The article “Body Positivity Is a Scam” by Amanda Mull argued that the “progressive” movements in the advertisement industry of certain brands have not been to promote body positivity. Rather, these advertisements have been catered to the feelings of the masses and are meant to drive up sales.
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All I can say about this article is wow. The facts of this article are not necessarily surprising, but it still makes my blood boil.
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Two words: raisin mafia.
For a story that seems it would be so simple and standard, “The Raisin Situation” takes you on a whirlwind journey with Sun-Maid’s new chief executive and the turmoil he faces entering the raisin industry.
The story begins explaining the raisin industry’s issue with young people not eating raisins and would seem to find it’s solution with the hiring of a younger CEO, Harry Overly, with experience in different food companies. The story then takes a turn with Overly meeting other raisin industry “players” and him saying after that occured in the back room of a restaurant felt like a raisin mafia.
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The podcast Grace Kelly (Dead Blondes Part 11) from the You Must Remember This Podcast told the story of Grace Kelly’s life and tragic death. After watching Grace Kelly in Rear Window as well as in some other films, knowing that she was a princess, and learning of her death, I thought that this podcast would be interesting to listen to and would give a greater insight into her life.
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I read this quite a while ago, and it stuck with me so much so that I read it again. It is devastating, by the way, in case anybody didn't land on this one.
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(This has been sitting in a Google doc since literally February. Sorry.
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With the insane pandemic impacting everyone worldwide, I thought this would be an interesting read. Americans have the highest sense of patriotic pride I have witnessed by far.
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After reading another one of Katie Baker's articles, I felt provoked to read another. However, "The Letter the Stafford Victim Read Aloud to Her Attacker" exceeded my expectations.
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A Behind the Scenes Look at Arcadia’s Clubs
There are over 60 recognized clubs on campus, all of which are student run. Because they’re student run, and by undergrads no less, they must balance all the demands of school alongside their board member duties.
While running a club might be fulfilling, especially if the space it provides is crucial to you and others, it can certainly be stressful.
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“I
have never heard someone be that disrespectful to me. You are so
unprofessional.
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The final project will be a publication that integrates research, writing, audio, video, and graphic elements in the exploration of a larger overarching theme. The purpose of this assignment is to expose you to the processes of pitching, developing, organizing, managing and producing a multimedia publication—both as individuals and as a collaborative team.
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Goffard’s piece “Framed” was truly a page-turner, or in this case, kept me scrolling. In 2011, Kelli Peters was the PTA president of the Plaza Vista School in Irvine, California.
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Where do I even start? This piece took me ages to read, as it’s over 36,000 words, but it was worth every minute.
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The fact that a very well-known meme arose from one simple experiment is still truly a wild concept to me. It goes to show that the dumbest details about life can be so important: a cultural reset, if you will.
As for the 400 word post/diagram of this experiment, I don’t have much to say other than the pictures were a good aid.
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Aside from the fact that Drew Magary is a total badass and an extremely lucky man, he is also a very convincing writer. This is an insane story about how his brain basically just blew up, how he spent his time in recovery, what he does and doesn’t remember, and how his family coped with his illness and rehabilitation.
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“Sometimes I’d feel hopeless, like I’d want to give up.”
I never thought I’d hear those words come from her mouth—a young woman I’ve admired for four years – but they did. As I sat with Kiara Jacoby in a very crowded storage room of Arcadia University’s Civic and Community Engagement Center (CCEC), I realized how taxing humanitarian work is. Boxes filled with miscellaneous cleaning products, shoes, books, and everything in between were strewn about, and they were a good indication of just how many different compartments this woman’s brain held.
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Arcadia University, a small college located in Glenside, Pennsylvania, is adding another varsity sport to its selection. The school announced recently that they will be adding ice hockey for both men and women.
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In class today, we talked a bit about storyboarding, and the way that it helps to visualize the visual narrative that you are constructing.
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Helen DeWitt’s piece “Diary of Being Stalked” gives us an unconventional viewpoint of a woman who is being stalked and how not every stalking case is the same. Her stalker “E” was often too helpful and affectionate, everyday showing up when her lights were on and smothering her with unneeded help.
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In the first class of the video unit, we discussed some of the most popular forms that multimedia publications utilize.
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(I didn't get to photograph a couple of the RAs I'm looking to get in the next couple of days, so I will add those as they come.)
Resident Assistants are tasked with decorating an entire hall, including their own door. Rosa Talley, 3rd year RA for Knight Hall 2nd floor, decorated hers with a collection of decor from all of her past residence halls.RAs are tasked with keeping residents informed about campus resources and events as well as decorating bulletin boards.
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The recent political turmoil within the United States has led to both an increase in the interest of politics and interest in radical politics, especially leftist ideology. Democratic socialism has been on the rise in the United States since the growing popularity of Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/are-we-any-safer/492761/
Before I start this, I just wanted to mention the author Steven Brill, best known for the magazine The American Lawyer, also shares the same name with a filmmaker best known for directing films like Heavyweights and Mr. Deeds, as well as the writer for the Mighty Ducks trilogy. I just think that's very funny and wanted to share that.
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Our world seems to be changing for the better, besides the very real issue of global warming that will eventually wipe us all out. But morally speaking, we are getting better.
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https://gizmodo.com/the-creepiest-things-you-can-do-on-facebook-1683434172
This was a very clever comedy writing piece that has a lot of great moments to laugh at. Facebook is kind of an interesting site, in the sense that it's largely populated by Grandmas and baby pictures, and isn't really known as an advocacy platform (Twitter) nor one populated by young users (Instagram, TikTok).
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Claire Dederer’s article touched on an issue that has been on the minds of many throughout the whole #MeToo movement. She asks the question, ‘Is it okay to still enjoy the art of those who have hurt and taken advantage of others?’ She opens the article by listing off the names of famous men that have been accused or convicted of sexual assault or harassment.
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Nick Bilton wrote this piece for Vanity Fair in 2016, two years prior to the publication of John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies of a Silicon Valley Startup (which I must confess that I have yet to finish, but I am getting there.) It’s a piece which clearly profiles a now-famously delusional person, whose story rose to prominence again in the last year or two as the stories of other delusional scammers became the subjects of different stories much like this one. Bilton here profiles the things which are now widely known about Holmes: her jarringly deep voice, her obsession with Steve Jobs and subsequent affinity for black turtlenecks, undisclosed and professionally inappropriate relationship with an important employee.
He also does well to shed light on many other things which have become well known details surrounding the massive and criminal decline of Theranos.
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Claire Dederer, the author of this piece, does well to introduce many concepts of human characteristics and conditions with a simple question: “what do we do with the art of monstrous men?” She begins with some background about said monsters- Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and the like- and what they have done. They’ve been accused of and defamed for horrendous crimes like rape and assault, but their works remain important to their successes.
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In Jason Fagone’s article, “What Bullets Do to Bodies,” he takes an in depth look at the experiences of a trauma surgeon working at Temple University Hospital, specifically at her experiences with shooting victims. From the very first line, the reader is drawn in by the subject of the article saying that said article would be pointless. This paired with the title of the piece immediately made me want to keep reading.
The strongest aspects of this article are it’s emotional appeals.
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How do you choose what format to put your data in for a chart, graphic, or other form of dataviz?
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Maybe this is cheating, since I’ve been a regular listener of You’re Wrong About for about a year (or whenever I went down the rabbit hole of retrospective reading/listening concerning Monica Lewinsky--and their episode about her is wonderful,) but my favorite episode of YWA was re-released over Valentines’ Day weekend, and I decided to give it one more listen. I knew it was a piece of content that had really given me a new perspective on a situation in our popular culture, and I wanted to revisit that.
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https://reallifemag.com/the-babysitters-club/
Reading through The Babysitter's Club, I already related to the very beginning, specifically the discussion of "caretaker speech". I might have found it nice as a kid, but the use of condescending language like "doggy-woggy" is the most insufferable and patronizing garbage ever.
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The topic of this piece focuses on the unnecessary fatal force police officers use against people who are allegedly posing a threat on society. The writer describes a time in their youth when their father was able to easily disengage a fight with one of their brother’s friends.
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In class, we discussed the different types of photos that you might include in a photo essay for your upcoming assignment. The photo essay is a form made famous in TIME magazine, where photographers like Ansel Adams and W Eugene Smith made some of the most important contributions to the genre.
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A series of resources for mixing your audio package
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Jeremy Gordon, “Is Everything Wrestling?” (1825 words)
The comparisons made between the fake wrestling seen on TV and the reality TV shows people indulge in, are quite striking. As Gordon points out, fans of WWE are often looked down upon by outsiders.
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In class on Monday, we went over the next assignment for the course: an audio package. The elements of an audio package are as follows:
Research: Always research first.
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The Atlantic article “College-Admissions Hysteria Is Not the Norm” written by Alia Wong examines the competitiveness and exposure that extremely selective schools receive from the media. Every year, there are reports on the acceptance rates of the Ivy League and other competitive schools.
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A collection of links on audio packages and preparing for interviews
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The video package assignment asks you to combine the interviewing, editing, and mixing skills you utilized in the audio package assignment with the visual storytelling skills you used in the photo/graphic gallery assignment.
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Purpose
You’ve started to think about your story from other perspectives, and in this unit we will continue the process by trying to use visual information to illustrate, clarify, or personalize the stories you’ve told. Format
There are many ways to tell a story using visual data.
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In class today we walked through a series of types of lede paragraphs, from basic News Ledes to more literary and stylistic choices. Here are the ledes we discussed in class:
Summary lede (AKA Straight News Lede, 5W’s Lede)
Punch lede – It uses strong verbs and short sentences that are meant to create an impact.
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Now that you have written your first story, we’re going to begin to explore how to adapt those stories into different genres, media, and formats. For this assignment we’ll look to adapt, expand, or extend your story into an audio package in the format of a short radio spot.
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In this course, you need to write 5000 words in response to multimedia content on the list of essays, podcasts, and multimedia features. Start today.
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A review of popular types of feature stories that exist in media today to provide some inspiration for the stories that you'll pitch next week.
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In class today: publishing lingo, pitches, and more.
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A collection of some of the links we've discussed during the first week of class.
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Don't forget!
The multimedia publication review is a short, 5-10 minute in-class presentation on an existing media outlet, explaining its structure, content, tone, and distinguishing features.
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In this assignment, you will spend a week or so reviewing a single publication to get a feeling for its content, tone, audience, style, organization, and signature characteristics, then present your findings to the class.
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On the first day of class, we discussed the origin of the course, the necessity of "doing stuff" even when it scares you, and more.
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