Academic

The following have been written particularly for an academic audience with topics ranging from marketing to digital media culture.  Many of these essays began as classwork and were remodeled for a blogging atmosphere.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction e-Portfolio

When I graduated from the University of South Carolina in the spring, I wore a garnet and black honor cord that stood for “graduating with leadership distinction,” in my specific concentration, “professional and civic engagement.” Only a small percentage of the student body receives this honor. One segment of this distinction was an authored ePortfolio […]

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Creating an Ethical News Consumer

By Rachyl Jones and Elyssa Fishman disinformation and the people’s response The year 2020 will go down in history.  It has brought a pandemic, a new wave of social justice protests, a controversial election and most notably, an ostensible rock bottom for trust in news outlets. In the past, news organizations have been accused of

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Time For a Closer Look

Please read this report alongside the Time Cover Index, available for download below. introduction In a world where print is turning digital, Time Magazine remains profitable for a simple reason: consumers see the cover and they pick the issue up.  Whether images picture celebrities, political cartoons or graphic war images, Time’s cover art has existed

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Man’s Search for Meaning in COVID-19

Due to my newfound abundance of free time, I’ve been rereading old books.  Most recently was Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning – “the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust.”  I remember feeling moved after my first reading, like Frankl discovered the solutions to life’s problems.  The second time around, I not only

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