Exhibit Blog

I chose to write about Jack Shirk and Devan Orr's exhibits. Jack's exhibit consisted of explaining and giving examples of different celebrities who got their fame from social media. One example that he used was the Paul Brothers, who started their fame from the app "Vine". These two brothers made short videos which were so stupid that they were hilarious, and became famous for them. Jack explained how companies use people such as the Paul Brothers to expand the name of their company.
These companies send them products and have them post of picture of them using the product on their social media; the best part is that if you are ever as lucky as the Paul brothers to have millions of followers, you will get paid... yes, you get paid just for posting a picture on your Instagram account. One example that I know of through my own social media experiences if Diff Eyewear. Diff Eyewear is a sunglasses company, which is also a charitable organization. For every pair of sunglasses sold, Diff Eyewear donates a pair of reading glasses to children in need. I follow many people from MTV, The Bachelorette, etc. on instagram, and several of them are ambassadors for Diff Eyewear. The picture to the left is a picture of Mikala Thomas from MTV's Are You the One? season 4 (133k followers on Instagram), posting a picture to promote Diff Eyewear.

Devan's PowerPoint exhibit was based on data mining by using the M-gram and Google Trends. The M-gram shows you how often words appear in books, while Google Trends shows you how many times a word is typed into Google. Devan was researching Vampires, Zombies and Witches, and how often they were seen in literature throughout different time periods. Devan had a graph of a time line which showed how often the word "witches"
was stated in books; the interesting thing is that this time line included the time of the Salem witch trials where the use of the word "witch" in literature was practically nonexistent. Between the three monsters which were displayed in her presentation, witches was most commonly used in books, while zombies was the most searched word on Google worldwide. I believe that the word "witches" is popular because of books such as Harry Potter, while Zombies could be searched more because of shows such as The Walking Dead.

Kendall Mahony