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Pay For Play, Someday?
Former University of Texas Longhorn Emmanuel Acho argued for the student-athlete throughout the talk, claiming that the players do not have an advocate or someone to represent their best interests. He stated that if Colt McCoy’s Longhorns jerseys are being … Continue reading
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March 9: The U.S. Men’s Soccer team as a potential World Cup Cinderella Story
Writer – Nick Erskine, Photographer – Nick Erskine Head Coach Jurgen Klinsmann delighted the SXSports faithful Sunday afternoon with optimistic rhetoric surrounding USA’s chances during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. In regards to reasons why the United States … Continue reading
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March 8, 2014 Session: Simmons and Silver discuss how journalists can brand themselves
This session highlighted the selling of Nate Silver’s http://www.fivethirtyeight.com website to ESPN. Originally a site focused on covering politics, it will now have an increased focus on using sports metrics and analytics in order to maker better sense of sports … Continue reading
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March 8, 2014 Session: Simmons and Silver discuss how to brand oneself as a journalist
-Writer Nick Erskine, Photographer Nick Erskine This session highlighted the selling of Nate Silver’s http://www.fivethirtyeight.com website to ESPN. Originally a site focused on covering politics, it will now have an increased focus on using sports metrics and analytics in order … Continue reading
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March 8, 2014 Session: Paying college athletes
Writer – Nick Erskine, Photographer – Nick Erskine Former UT Longhorn Emmanuel Acho argued for the student-athlete throughout the talk, claiming that the players do not have an advocate or someone to represent their best interests. He stated that if … Continue reading
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SXSports: Paying student-athletes
Writer – Nick Erskine, Photographer – Nick Erskine Former UT Longhorn Emmanuel Acho argued for the student-athlete throughout the talk, claiming that the players do not have an advocate or someone to represent their best interests. He stated that if … Continue reading
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The next big thing in social media
Considering I am not a social media expert nor new media scholar, it is difficult to opine about the next big social media revolution. While I lack huge moonshot technological ideas, I do have some smaller — yet still significant … Continue reading
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Google: A money-making machine and business model
Google, according to the London Times, is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world” (Jarvis, 2009). This is remarkable when one considers the success of other tech companies such as Microsoft, Facebook and Apple. According to Levy … Continue reading
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There are several cultural implications of online spaces. The Internet has helped to shape our values and norms by the propagation of said values throughout websites, blog posts and social media. Murray writes in “Inventing the Medium” that new media … Continue reading
Media Interactivity
My own definition of interactivity as it relates to media is the information flow from user to computer and vice versa. At times during this “dialog,” the computer guides the user, while in other moments, the user guides the computer … Continue reading
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