Author: Adela Cejnarova

Media Hybridity, Binge-Watching, and Politics

The media composition has been continuously changing for decades with new technology emerging and incorporating itself into the previous media landscape. Currently, we are at an age where, more than ever, technology allows regular people to take part in the creation of media coverage, and exchange information rather than only passively receive it. Naturally, this […]

Social Network Structures: Agenda Setting and Collaboration

Smith, Rainie, Sheneiderman, and Himelboim (2014) identified six distinct types of community clusters on Twitter: Polarized Crowd, Tight Crowd, Brand Clusters, Community Clusters, Broadcast Network and Support Network. I am going to discuss examples of Broadcast Network and Tight Crowd through analysis of communities using #AdWeek (Broadcast Network) and #SFCyberSecurity (Tight Crowd). First, the following […]

From Camera Obscura to Instagram

The invention of the first camera dates back to the ancient Greece and China, where camera obscura was used to project an image upside down. Although camera obscura has been developed and used for many years, the invention of preserving the images could be considered the real breakthrough in photography. In 1827 Joseph Nicephore Niepce […]