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Get Schooled: A Visual Social Semiotic Analysis Of Target's Branding Using Instagram, Chelsea Bevins
Get Schooled: A Visual Social Semiotic Analysis Of Target's Branding Using Instagram, Chelsea Bevins
Masters Theses
With new technology arising, brands must be able to adapt to them. This thesis will break down brand management, using David Aaker's framework, of the Target Corporation to see if they are using modern resource, Instagram effectively. This thesis will also look at how the theory of visual social semiotics, applied to communications, is used to decipher intended meaning. Brand management embodies a company and people are driven by what a brand portrays. People are driven by values, emotions and quality within a brand. People associate products with memories, celebrities, attributes and symbols. Brands are more than just a name. …
Tie Strength, Embeddedness, And Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment, Sinan Aral, Dylan Walker
Tie Strength, Embeddedness, And Social Influence: A Large-Scale Networked Experiment, Sinan Aral, Dylan Walker
Business Faculty Articles and Research
We leverage the newly emerging business analytical capability to rapidly deploy and iterate large-scale, microlevel, in vivo randomized experiments to understand how social influence in networks impacts consumer demand. Understanding peer influence is critical to estimating product demand and diffusion, creating effective viral marketing, and designing “network interventions” to promote positive social change. But several statistical challenges make it difficult to econometrically identify peer influence in networks. Though some recent studies use experiments to identify influence, they have not investigated the social or structural conditions under which influence is strongest. By randomly manipulating messages sent by adopters of a Facebook …
What Makes A Homepage Effective – Aals 2014 Presentation, Leslie R. Steinberg, Steven Barnes, Roger Skalbeck
What Makes A Homepage Effective – Aals 2014 Presentation, Leslie R. Steinberg, Steven Barnes, Roger Skalbeck
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
As the approach to website development is constantly evolving to accommodate the latest technology, what are the best practices in law school home page design? Speakers will include Roger Skalbeck, author of the annual "Top 10 Law School Home Pages" ranking, who will explain the methodology, analysis and trends related to the study, and Steven Barnes, who will share the award-winning approach used at Penn Law to earn accolades from key constituencies, tie for #1 in “The Top 10 Home Pages” and earn a 2013 Webby People’s Voice Award.