Rachel Mosley

Rachel Mosley is a first-year graduate student at Texas State University studying Mass Communications with a concentration in Digital Media. She graduated from the University of Alabama in 2013 with her BA in Psychology and minor in Journalism. She currently works as a graduate instructional assistant in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She teaches two labs for the undergraduate Fundamentals of Digital and Online Media course and assists with coordinating Mass Communications Week with a variety of faculty, staff and students. On her free time, Rachel enjoys playing and cuddling with her dog, visiting family and friends, binge watching shows and movies, and shopping.

SXSW 2017: The Finale

SXSW went as quickly as it came. One moment I was preparing interviews with panelists for preview articles, and now I’m writing my final piece to wrap up my experience. My experience at SXSW was first overwhelming. I had never been to the conference, film or music portion, so it was completely new to me. […]

Animal Equality

When walking around the Trade Show at SXSW, you can see and experience technologies that innovative people have created and are sharing to the world. One booth that I stopped by was the iANIMAL VR experience created by animalEQUALITY. This VR experience is a four-minute video that embodies the user as an animal at the […]

Virtual Psychedelics: How VR Affects Your Brain

Virtual Reality is the new up and coming technology that is being used for sharing content, entertainment, and allowing a unique visual and physical experience. Consumers can even have their own VR headset right at home and are seeing this epidemic as the new technology to change the way we may live and experience things. […]

How Technology Has Impacted Graphic Design

Graphic design has been around for quit some time and throughout the years, technology has impacted the way people can design. In the panel How Technology Has Impacted Graphic Design, Sara Shields, an instructor and graduate student from Texas State University, and Paul Trani, a Senior Worldwide Evangelist from Adobe, talked about the history of […]

Content is Still King: A New Narrative Calls

For one of my previews, I interviewed Kinvara Balfour about her panel Content is Still King: A New Narrative Calls. In this preview, Balfour mentioned that she hoped people who attended the panel would leave it with a new knowledge for whats to come, new ideas on how to create content and where the content […]

Faces & Digital Spaces: Transforming Beauty

Fay Cowan with Decoded Fashion moderated the Faces & Digital Spaces: Transforming Beauty panel that talked about how tech is changing the beauty world and what benefits brands receive beyond their marketing. The panelists were Jennifer Tidy from Modiface, Swan Sit from Revlon/Elizabeth Arden, and Moj Mahdara from BeautyCon Media. With technology such a big […]

SXSW Saturday Highlights

We’re testing Evrybit during SXSW. Evrybit is a mobile reporting platform. Each day, a different person will run our Evrybit and embed it on our site. Follow along throughout the day!