Author: Nic Raven

As a military photojournalist, we have a saying, “Semper Gumby”, which means “always flexible.” We adhere to this principle simply due to the fact that the story you want to tell is not necessarily the story that you tell. For

Each city has a beat. a pulse if you will, and each pulse draws a specific music genre. Using a Bootstrap template, I am going to design a multiple page website in order to tell the story of a city’s

During the 2007 Nigerian Presidential election, the pundits were able to predict the presidential winner simply by monitoring the nations social media.  Although I know that this nation monitors social media regarding their candidates, I wonder to what extent. Freshman

All too often citizens of Austin are force fed information about why we should smile and wave when it comes to the inconvenience of large festivals – citing that the city takes in X number of dollars per event.  My

What I gleaned from the articles is how important data journalism is and how easy it can be misused.  Data for data sake is a downfall of data journalism.  In order for data visualization or data journalism to become human,

During a conversation with Adelitas Way front man, Rick DeJesus, he explained why major rock and metal groups stay away from Austin. “Austin is just not a Rock n Roll town,” said Dejesus. With that in mind, my project would

You can not surf your social media with out an invitation to find out your true age, http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/what-age-are-you-really#.dvXjvWrzw4 your animal spirit http://www.buzzfeed.com/geico/what-animal-were-you-born-to-be#.xx9vaQ5n81, or find your band name,http://www.bandnamemaker.com .  Well this is no different, so here take a gander at your

For this weeks assignment, I created a logic chart for my project, which is a daily fortune web-app.  Here is the flow chart.  this project will take you through a few steps, then provide you with your daily fortune.

Hi, I am Nic Raven. I am going to finish my Master’s in Strategic Communication and follow on with a Ph.D. in Mass Communications. What I hope to do with all that education and knowledge? Change the world of course.