By: Savannah Lopez Blog Content Contributor With all the drama surrounding the app, TikTok, it has got me and a lot of my friends thinking about its actual purpose. I will spend hours scrolling TikTok or Instagram when I’m bored instead of doing something more meaningful in my spare time. I feel like quick viewing social media like TikTok and Instagram have shortened my attention span. In fact, I think […]
By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor Last semester, I wrote a blog post about the celebrity couple phenomenon taking over the news and social media. In the last few weeks, I have noticed a parallel that cannot be overlooked. Like in the spring, I cannot scroll past five TikToks without seeing someone comment on the growing number of cheating celebrity husbands. This inexcusable behavior and other factors have caused a […]
By Allison Schroeder Web Content Assistant Manager In the world of business, social media, influencers, and more, there is one thing I have learned this past semester, is to take the time to create a brand. Establish what your brand is and what you want it to be. Digital marketing is a crazy world. It consists of so many opportunities to expand your reach to your followers, your followers' friends, […]
By Celeste Parler Web Content Contributor There is a craze on social media apps like TikTok and YouTube that has influencers motivating a generation to reinvent their image. Specifically, it has everyone and their mother trying to become “that girl". You may also know her as the girl that has her whole life together and that all of us secretly aspire to be. If you haven’t met her, you have […]
By Autumn McGowan Web Content Contributor As a disclaimer, I am not a dietician or nutritionist. I am just a person making observations based on my own experiences with diet culture. Christy Harrison M.P.H., R.D., C.D.N., a self-proclaimed anti-dietician, podcast host, and certified intuitive eating counselor says that diet culture is “a system of beliefs that worships thinness and equates it to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss as […]
By Rachael GerronWeb Content Contributor Digital content creator and recent Texas State University graduate, Summer Rachel Warren, spoke to current Mass Communication students last week about her experience as an influencer and entrepreneur. Warren has nearly 250 thousand Tik-Tok followers and over 90 thousand followers on Instagram. On these social media platforms, Warren partners with clothing brands such as; Nasty Gal, Boo Hoo and Princess Polly to post fashion and […]
By Paige GreeneWeb Content Contributor Social media allows us to stay connected and keep relationships that we would not be able to otherwise. This connection can ease anxiety, stress and depression, but it can also cause it. I am not going to sit here and tell you that you have to delete all of your social media in order to be happy, because that is definitely not the case. Being […]
By Paige GreeneWeb Content Contributor FOMO, or the “fear of missing out,” is defined as anxiety that an interesting or exciting event is happening elsewhere. This could be that gut-feeling you get when you see all your friends together on social media but you’re not there, or the reason you always say yes to going out. If so, you are not alone because a 2013 study shows that nearly three […]
By Brittany AndersonAssistant Web Content Manager First things first: don’t let anyone put you down for using your voice through social media. Ever. I’ve been told (either directly, or it's been implied) that online platforms are not an ideal space to challenge others when it comes to matters of social justice. Yes, there occasionally comes a time when arguing with family or friends on Facebook eventually renders itself a lost […]
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