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A little late but here is my Tweet Map! I decided to do my map over Lana Del Rey tweets! She was a recent artist at ACL and had an album come out this year. Also, I did because she’s

I realize that this is the single most random post I’ve made this semester, but trust me … I think I’m onto something big here. The other day, I realized this class is the perfect metaphor for the first season

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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