Julia Dallas

I grew up with social media. The first social platform I used was Facebook, but I remember when Snapchat and Instagram stories first came out. When I first used social media, it was for entertainment and keeping up with friends. Which was pretty much what everyone my age was using it for. I still use…

The pros of WordPress are that you can easily make blog posts and create content. You can also add users to your website so they can log in and posts things separately. The cons are that it does not have many great design options and that it looks a little outdated.

Something that stuck with me throughout my Intro to Digital Communications course was that social media is becoming a powerful tool in creating movements. Social media is also becoming the new way to receive news. Hashtag activism is something I think will continue to thrive. For example, #MeToo, #ClimateCrisis, and #BlackLivesMatter have all been hashtags…

This weeks post focuses on the lack of diversity in the journalism field. I will be referencing a report by the Columbia Journalism Review that shows there is a predominantly white male population in the newsroom (Arana, 2018). I see it getting better, but everyone in my workplace is mostly white. When taking my diversity…

Working at Nordstrom has given me insight into why big data is important in retail. As a sales associate part of my job is processing returns. We cannot process a return unless we have proof that the item was purchased. Many people, me included, lose their paper receipt. At Nordstrom you can make an account…

In class we talked about how journalists can use data to tell stories. The article I chose to examine from The Visual Capitalist is The World’s Fastest Growing Cities. “The majority of the world’s fastest growing cities are located in Africa—in fact, 17 of the 20 are located on the continent, with four of the…

The social digital divide refers to the gap between those with technology and without technology within the lower, middle and upper classes. This was very apparent during COVID when students had to do their work from home. In class we talked about how some students were homeschooled during that time or didn’t go to school…

After researching I found there are two main points of why people want censorship, or don’t want censorship of social media. The first point is that censoring social media is violating our freedom of speech and the second is that non-censoring spreads fake information. One article from NBC News talks about how Instagram’s new sensitive…

Something that I think could be improved is sending large amounts of pictures over the internet. Right now, iPhone has airdrop which allows you to send a mass amount of pictures, quickly, through Bluetooth. However, Email only lets you send a few images at a time. You can use a dropbox and provide a link…

I currently work as a promotion assistant for KIRO Radio in Seattle. One of my main tasks is calling people who win on our radio and getting their paperwork so that we can give them their prize. This includes signing a release form and sometimes a W2. Technological convergence has definitely affected my job. Before…