Women and Sports

A lot of the time women are looked down on in sports. There is a barrier that can't seem to be broken. However, is this barrier not yet broken by UFC fighter Ronda Roswey? Roswey who is a top pay-per view draw for UFC and action movie sensation, has now taken her many talents to print. She is the frist woman to grace the cover of 'Men's Fitness'.
Checkout this mock radio broadcast on my soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/sarah-day-277682630/ronda-rousey

Farmers Market

Fresh produce, baked goods and original artwork are among items students, faculty, and community members can expect to find at Southern Miss’ weekly Farmers’ Market every Monday.

 From three to six pm, starting April sixth two thousand and fifteen the Office of Sustainability hosts a Farmers Market at Shoemaker Square on the Southern Miss campus.

 Vendors from Hattiesburg and surrounding  areas set up tents.  selling their locally grown goods for the southern miss community to enjoy.

 The market will be held through the last Monday of October.

Checkout some B-Roll I gathered of the Farmers Market:

Newsletter

In one of my Mass Communications and Journalism class during the Graphic Design unit we were to design a newsletter page using InDesign bringing all elements such as topography, color, layout, and design together.  Here is an example of my work.  

The Challenges With Writing Today

One of the biggest challenge in writing for today’s world is ironically social media. Even though all of the advances in technology amaze me and being an 20 year old I am probably obsessed with it I think it has changed the way we have decided to talk to one another.  Sometimes when I'm typing a paper for English I will find myself typing in slang as if I were sending a text…I know scary.

Should there be a certain way to  write when writing on social media than there is in print news and broadcast news? It is almost as if social media has moved itself away form the idea of online web writing and transformed into a whole new genre. How can journalists branch out and cover all of the genres of news sources when there are so many?

Another issue Journalists struggle with is writing fairly.

Here  is a link to an article saying that most Americans get their news from TV :  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/americans-tv-news-gallup_n_3560831.html

However I beg to differ, I believe most people get their news sources from social media! With everyone using their smart phones and having social media literally at the tips of their fingers I believe social media trumps all for news sources. 

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Magazine Cover

 In my Mass Communications and Journalism 200 we were to design a Magazine Cover which included using Photoshop and incorporating visual grammar including visual elements, principles of design, cropping, and correcting digital photos. This is an example of my work with the program, Photoshop. For the most part, I enjoy the projects assigned for my classes. Being able to express myself through this kind of creativity, Mass Communications has really proved itself to be the outlet or study for me!
Sarah Day 

Highlight on Social Media

Is Twitter the new Facebook???

Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, or Tumbler, I bet those 30 people I talked about above most likely  have more than one of these. And truthfully this applies to people even older than 30. It seems like all of my older relatives are popping up on Facebook now and liking all of my pictures. When looking at all of the types of social media, each and every one are all so different. They all started for different reasons too. Lets take Facebook for example, it started out as a website for college students to get to know each other better. It was a place where people could post statuses and pictures that let people know who they were, it has an information place for people to put their hometown, their favorite movies, and where they work. Twitter on the other hand, started as a small version of Facebook. It was a place to make short little posts to inform people what was happening in quick ways. All in all they were all started as a way of communication, to keep those you don'f usually keep in touch that normally you wouldn't keep in touch with. 

So, now that we  have the background of social media, a popping questions strikes social media users and that question is "Is twitter the new Facebook?" . Here is  a graph that breakdowns the social demographics of those who use twitter and Facebook and how both differ. http://www.digitalsurgeons.com/facebook-vs-twitter-infographic/

This graph really shows what I think on this matter. Personally I think there is too big of a difference between the two to compare them, and in the graph you can see that different people probably use each of the networks for different purposes. Facebook has transformed into a long-term source of information. It's the place to go when you are checking up on high school friends you haven't seen in a while. Facebook generally has information that includes the whole life-span of a person. Whereas twitter is more of a short-term source of information. People generally post what they are doing in that particular second on Twitter. 

        When discussing which network is "better" for media and journalism, I think Twitter is the better fit. More and more reporters and journalists are using twitter as their gateway between themselves and their audience. Twitter is an easy way to get news to people and fast. 

         When dealing with media however, it is hard to maintain integrity. Therefore I don't think there is a media that really helps maintain the integrity of journalism and this is because  social media has transformed into a place where people can be whoever they want to be and say what they want to say, even if it's not true. So personally I think that is one of the main obstacles that reporters and journalists are going to face when using social media for their work. They are must really stress to their readers that their information is honest and accurate.    

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