Hey there, I’m Theresa and I am the Advertising junkie in this bunch. I got my bachelor’s in advertising from UT @ Austin in 2003 and then worked as a Media Planner and then, later, a Research Executive evaluating online advertising campaigns. I am a teaching assistant at Texas State for the massive undergraduate class […]
Let’s start with a quick introduction-my name is Dee and I’m in my last semester of Grad school at Texas State University in San Marcos. I am also a teaching assistant there and whatever time I have left after school/work, I spend online or playing videogames. I am a HUGE Nintendo junkie and have all […]
Hi, I’m Anna, and I’m a social networking/convergence junkie. It started out innocently enough, a friend of mine told me to look at her photos on Friendster (2003) and another added me to her circle of friends on Bebo. We used to spend (entirely too much) time drawing on each others’ White Boards. I thought […]
I’m curious what Mark Zuckerburg will have to say in his SXSW keynote address about privacy issues. On the heels of some recent press about the difficulty in deleting your information from Facebook, the Berkman Center’s Digital Natives blog asks an interesting question: Has Facebook changed our conceptions of privacy? It’s worth pondering. Has our […]
I have visited SXSW over the past five years, purely on a musical level. I have ventured into the interactive pavilion only to have my brain catch fire with all the technological devices. That fact remains the same. But, this year I will take a step closer to understanding this techno field of interactivity. I […]
This blog, hosted by graduate students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University in San Marcos, will showcase activities at the 2008 South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, TX. I would like to thank the organizers of SXSW for giving us the opportunity to participate and for sponsoring this […]