Trei Brundrett from Vox Media was the first speaker I attended during Mass Comm Week 2014 and I’m glad I did. Vox Media is an online publisher that has various websites under it’s belt including: The Verge, SB Nation, Polygon , Eater
Too Much Data VS Not the Right Type of Data
Originally, I wanted to explore whether or not the punk rock genre of music is still a present style in both the SXSW and ACL music scenes and look at how much people on Twitter were discussing the two and
Stacie Chan from Google News
This presentation was interesting for me because I’m a journalism student, but I’m not sure if I will end up working as a traditional reporter. Stacie Chan gave of one example of a relevant journalism job that is also tech
Austin Mahone Tweet Map
For Assignment 2 I decided to stick with our Texas music tweets, but switch it up a bit. I chose to maps tweets about the singer Austin Mahone who is orginally from San Antonio. He’s what I like to call
ACL and Lorde In Tweets
Google Map Despite Lorde’s popularity at this year’s ACL Festival, the 17-year-old New Zealander had few tweets about her performances. Finding tweets that used the words “ACL” and “Lorde” from users’ GPS-based locations proved to be difficult. The majority
Website Optimization Presentation
I couldn’t make it to the presentation on Monday, so instead I’m writing about another relevant presentation by Adam Hermsdorfer of BigTuna Interactive on Website Optimization. Might be cool since not everyone got to see this one! So, BigTuna Interactive
Trei Brundrett and the Vox Chorus
It was great to have the opportunity to listen to Trei Brundrett (@clockwerks) during Texas State’s Mass Communications Week (@txstatemcweek). He was there to discuss the interesting things happening with Vox Media’s multiple platforms and give us a bit of
Texas Music Tweets
For our second assignment, we were to extract data using Twitter’s API. This was an excellent exercise to become familiar with how API’s worked and what can be accomplished when using them. I did not know it was possible to
Stacie Chan, will you be my sponsor?
Stacie Chan Meeting Stacie Chan was an eye opening experience. Learning about the processes of Google News was fascinating. 1. First off, I had no idea this was a free service and any publishing franchise could opt into it. 2.
Mapping Tweets Assignment!
Hey guys! I decided to do my project on Kendrick Lamar, one of my favorite Hip-Hop artists. Using the code the Apan put together for us, I was able to mine tweets for “Kendrick AND Lamar.” In this, I found