{"id":399,"date":"2014-01-12T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/?p=399"},"modified":"2014-01-12T19:58:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T03:58:15","slug":"introduction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/2014\/01\/12\/introduction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I&#8217;m Kelsey Hamilton and I am in my fourth year at UVIC. I&#8217;m doing a major in sociology with a minor in professional writing, which is what lead me to TS 400. TS 400 is offered this semester, works with my schedule, and completes my minor in journalism. I am not necessarily a tech-savvy person, but I am realizing it is becoming pertinent to almost any profession, not only writing.<\/p>\n<p>I have always had an interest in social media, how quickly it has grown, and how quickly we have lost interest in privacy. I am also interested in, as a journalist, the varying degrees of information available through technology but also hidden by technology.<\/p>\n<p>In another class, a student discussed an article she read of a new app, similar to snap chat, aimed at professionals who do not want a record of their communication or documents between one another to exist. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/technology\/tech-news\/a-snapchat-like-app-to-keep-off-the-record-texts-confidential\/article16242663\/\">article<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I&#8217;m Kelsey Hamilton and I am in my fourth year at UVIC. I&#8217;m doing a major in sociology with a minor in professional writing, which is what lead me to TS 400. TS 400 is offered this semester, works with my schedule, and completes my minor in journalism. I am not necessarily a tech-savvy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/2014\/01\/12\/introduction-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-site-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}