The first two days of Mass Comm Week I’ve already atended more interesting panels and discussions than I had in the last 3 years here at Texas State. The week started with a talk on entrepreneurial thinking from Chris Perez, CEO
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I attended Trisha Espinoza’s Q & A on career advice. Trisha is currently the VP of programming at BET and has worked at MTV and Oxygen. Trisha stressed the importance of getting out of your comfort zone when it comes
The first of many insights
I was only able to attend one panel on Monday but I’m so glad I did. Chris Perez at the Entrepreneurial Thinking session was such a breath of fresh air. When you live in a world that says you have
MC week pt. 1
The talk with Chris Perez about entrepreneurial thinking was amazing and inspiring. He talked about starting Citygram. He had some great advise for college students. I’m not all that interested in being an entrepreneur but Chris said one thing that
Media portrayals and best practices for reporting on people with disabilities
I visited a few panels so far this week, and have enjoyed all. The one that stuck out to me most was the Disability Panel. Our own coding classmate, Paige Lambert was the moderator today with the panel. Paige asked
Mass Comm Week (1st half)
Unfortunately, because of my schedule I have only been able to attend two mass comm events so far, but both were really good. The first was entrepreneurial Thinking with Chris Perez of Citygram and Left Right Media. He gave a
“Creation is Human Nature” – Entrepreneurial Thinking at MC Week
Today’s Mass Comm Week exploration involved entrepreneurial thinking, presented by Chris Perez , CEO at Left/Right Media. Trained as an electrical engineer, his passions for business led him to form the mobile application CityGram, a kind of “city guide in your
Excel Spreadsheet Exercise
For my spreadsheet exercise, I pulled data from the US Census Report. The population numbers on the CSV file I used were scored by age, and I simplified it by categorizing the ages into age groups spanning from 0-18, 19-34,
Musical Involvement for the 2008 Federal Elections
For this analysis I chose to practice selecting very specific data. This data pulled from Engima.io shows contributions made by both individuals and companies to the 2008 federal election campaigns in the United States. Specifically, these contributions were made in
Top 1500 Party Songs broken down by genre
I had a hard time finding any meaningful data (about music at least) that i wanted to work with for this preliminary excel exercise. I eventually found a database of 70,000 songs for DJ’s to use so potential clients can