Guest Speaker Series: Penny Mason (Advertising)

An industry that was spoken about in our media guest speaker series was advertising. According to ipa.co.uk, “All businesses, charities, celebrities and governments depend on advertising to make themselves known and to relay their latest messages” (IPA, 2021) thus showing that advertising can be considered as a pivotal media industry. Personally, I have been interested in […]

Soundwaves of Media Podcast: Public Relations Guest Speaker

As part of a University group project, we created a podcast based on our chosen media industry of public relations. For this podcast, our hosts Ben and Barbara interviewed Amy Ahmed-Dolphin, Whistle PR Account Director, about the PR industry, career experiences, and advice for anyone aspiring to enter this field. Provided in this section is […]

Guest Speaker Series: Jacqueline Farrer (Social Media)

A career which was spoken about in our professional guest speaker series was social media management. Social media management is a career with increasing relevance due to the growth of the internet in the past few decades, with the internet growing exponentially including a number of countries where over 60% of the population have access […]

Digital Geography Blog

Digital geography is an almost self-explanatory term, giving indications that geographical studies and landscapes are embracing the digital age and adapting to new technologies, with digital technologies having a significant role in modern geographic practice. (Ash, Kitchin, Leszczynski, 2018).  Digital geography is very often centred around ideas of space and place, with the former meaning […]

280MAPA Podcast – “How does Twitter create a virtual sense of place?”

This section is about my 280MAPA individual podcast/ audio essay. For my podcast, I decided to look at how Twitter uses digital geography and creates a virtual sense of place, with key focus on a community known as football Twitter. Here is a video version of my podcast: Here is an audio only version of […]

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