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Online Communication, Business Assessment

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      Zara is a multi-national clothing chain that was founded 47 years ago in Spain. This clothing brand has 2007 stores and they are all around the world. Zara has profiles on all different kinds of social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin.      To be honest, I am a huge fan of Zara and their clothes. This brand might be one of my all time favorites and the main reason for this is their high quality yet affordable clothing. Zara follows all the trends and it is a good option whether you want to look classy or casual. I love to say that Zara very often gives an impression of a high fashion brand because of their creations.      In my opinion, Zara does a great job communicating on their social media platforms. The best proof of this is the number of followers on both Instagram and TikTok platforms. Their Instagram profile currently has 54.2 million followers while their TikTok account counts up to 5 million followers. The main reason why Zara is so follo

Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants

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According to Prensky, what is the immigrant/native divide and how has it affected the way students learn?  According to Prensky, digital natives refer to " native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet. All the students today fall into this group because they have spent their entire lives surrounded by all these digital tools. On the other hand, digital immigrants refer to individuals who were not born into the digital world, but still adopted certain aspects of modern technology due to living in this world now. It is pretty easy to notice who is a digital native or a digital immigrant due to differences in their languages. The main problem is related to education since most of the instructors and professors are digital immigrants who are trying to teach a population (students) who speak a totally different language. This can be very challenging because both of them grew up in different time periods and different settings. Education can be ver

Knapp's Relational Model

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 Hi guys,       Knapp's Relational Model is used to explain how some relationships grow, last, but also how they end. This model is made up off 10 different phases which are separated into two interrelating models, escalation and termination model. The important detail is that it is totally normal if some of the steps are skipped during the progression of these stages.       For this week's blog I decided to talk about my boyfriend because I think we have a very interesting story, a story that is not very common and traditional. My boyfriend and I have known each other for the past 5 years, but we started dating 4 months ago. Aleksa (my boyfriend) and I have been very good friends for a long time, however, we didn't really spend a lot of time together at all. We mainly texted and face timed from time to time during these 5 years. The main thing that connected us at the first place was basketball and a few mutual friends we had. We started talking without actually planning

Oversharing Online

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  Hi everyone,  Do different social networking sites offer different benefits and drawbacks?      I am very excited to talk about this topic since social media is a part of all of our lives in one way or another. It doesn't really matter anymore if one has a social media account, because even if they don't, they are very likely to hear about it around their friends, in news or on TVs. Social media is a source of a lot of information or ideas that we get on daily basis, both positive and negative. Therefore, I personally think that social networking has many pros and cons.       In my opinion, all social media and each social networking site has its own benefits and drawbacks. I think there is rarely any social media that has just positives or just negatives to offer. Hence, no matter what social media we use, we will be exposed to both of these. However, we are the ones who are responsible for what is showing on our feed. For example, Instagram is a platform that can very easil