Before I began my MA in Writing & Digital Communication, much of my social and intellectual life was lived online on social media platforms, in shared posts and private messages and chats with friends. Much of it still is, and the quarantine has only increased that. Currently, funny, topical social media posts are now responsible…… Continue reading Final Essay: DigiComm in the Time of Corona
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Writing: The Third Death
In the summer of 2019, I took a class on Solutions Journalism with Melissa Faye Greene, who encouraged us to look beyond the dire headlines we’d become used to and elevate the hopeful stories that left its readers with a little hope. For my own solution story, I chose to highlight a local cemetery’s commitment…… Continue reading Writing: The Third Death
Research: The Argos Project
For my Grantwriting class, we were given 5-6 categories of social issues, then asked to pick one and write a grant for a project that would uniquely address an aspect of our issue. Since I chose the Pets with Homeless Owners group, I created The Argos Project, a group that would train volunteers to give…… Continue reading Research: The Argos Project
Design: Mortal Coil Magazine
This project was created for my Persuasive Writing & Speaking class in fall of 2019. Challenged to create a persuasive campaign that would encourage people to engage with a topic of our choice, I chose the concept of death positivity. In order to make my message appeal to demographics more used to print-based formats, I…… Continue reading Design: Mortal Coil Magazine
Writing: Social Media As Means to Redress Exploitation of Disorganized Labor
This paper was written for my Technologies of Social Change class with Dr. Ivanova in the fall of 2019. By examining an entirely-online labor protest event, I consider the ways social media can be used by movements to gain momentum, manage public attitudes, and resurrect old wrongs to be righted in labor disputes. This paper…… Continue reading Writing: Social Media As Means to Redress Exploitation of Disorganized Labor
Digital Art: Illumination
Using AfterEffects and Photoshop, I was able to create the following .gif file in response to my final project for Visual Thinking, Digital Design. The purpose of the assignment was meant to respond to the contrast between the storage of information in analog and digital formats, and how they may differ. I chose the theme…… Continue reading Digital Art: Illumination
Research: Who Bears Witness for the Witnesses?
This research paper was created for my Critical Communications class in the fall of 2018. In CC, we were asked to look critically at the ways people communicate, how we interpret that communication, and what that says about the people on both ends of that relationship. With the advent of the #MeToo movement in the…… Continue reading Research: Who Bears Witness for the Witnesses?
Pitch Deck: A Transmedia Odyssey
In the fall of 2018, my Transmedia class was given the assignment of creating our own transmedia story, told across at least three platforms, and then pitching our classmates, who would then pick which project we would eventually produce. Since we were allowed to use ideas in the public domain, I decided to create an…… Continue reading Pitch Deck: A Transmedia Odyssey
Speaking: Social Media Campaign Pitch
I created this video in response to an assignment for my Developing Content for Social Media class, in the spring of 2019. The specific assignment was to create a social media campaign to promote the college’s upcoming inauguration of its ninth president, Leocadia I. Zak, and then create a pitch video presenting this campaign, with…… Continue reading Speaking: Social Media Campaign Pitch
What’s On My Kindle?
Hey y’all! I’ve taking my own advice about relaxing, and when I wasn’t beating my head against my textbooks in hopes that the words will somehow get from the page into my brain, I managed to get a little pleasure reading in! Here’s a quick rundown of the books I’ve managed to finish off since…… Continue reading What’s On My Kindle?
Isobel Robinson-Ortiz 