This study evaluates the impact of the UMVerse VR Experience, an immersive virtual replica of the University of Miami campus, on student behavior, perceptions, and spatial knowledge to enhance university onboarding and explore VR's role in higher education.

Swipe and Shop: The Guide to Social Commerce
Justin Parrondo2025-02-19T12:03:56-05:00This paper examines the current trends, consumer behaviors, and technological advancements of social commerce, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic's catalytic role. It [...]

The Need for Implementation of Smart Cities
Justin Parrondo2025-02-19T12:03:44-05:00Smart cities are infrastructures that increase convenience, efficiency, safety, sustainability, and optimal performance in a vast array of fields made possible by the Internet of [...]

The Role of Influencers in Digital Marketing
Justin Parrondo2025-02-19T12:03:29-05:00As digital marketing continues to dominate the advertising sphere, new methods and techniques to best gain customers and increase sales have emerged. Social media influencers [...]

Advancement’s Achilles’ Heel: The Disservice of Deepfakes
Justin Parrondo2025-03-28T14:17:32-04:00Advancements in artificial intelligence have led to the rise of deepfake technologies. Using such neural network models as Generative Adversarial Network and the Video Autoencoder, [...]

Media Management Association Awards 2024
Justin Parrondo2025-03-28T14:16:13-04:00About Since 2016, the Media Management Association (MMA) Awards have recognized outstanding undergraduate and graduate student works (i.e., major student papers and projects, including creative [...]
Social Media and Censorship
Michael Lester2025-03-28T14:16:32-04:00This paper will focus on the political and social complexities surrounding the Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act debate. The purpose is to properly [...]
The World of Deepfakes
Michael Lester2025-03-28T14:16:44-04:00This paper will review the major aspects of deepfake audio and video technology. First, it will provide an in-depth explanation of how deepfakes are created [...]

The Influence of Social Media on the Athletic World
Michael Lester2025-03-28T14:16:59-04:00Social media is an effective tool used by members of the athletic industry including athletes, teams, media outlets, and fans. This digital technology can impact [...]

Media Management Association Awards 2023
Michael Lester2025-03-28T14:17:16-04:00About Since 2016, the Media Management Association (MMA) Awards have recognized outstanding undergraduate and graduate student works (i.e., major student papers and projects, including creative [...]

Patrick Farrell’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos, ‘Haiti’s Year Without Mercy’
Karina Valdes2025-03-28T14:17:43-04:00In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, covering a relentless season of hurricanes and tropical storms in late 2008, Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell and reporter Jacquie Charles started hearing [...]

A Conversation About the NPR Podcast “White Lies” at the University of Miami
Karina Valdes2025-03-28T14:18:43-04:00A Conversation About the NPR Podcast, "White Lies," Season Two with, Andrew Beck Grace co-creator, "White Lies," Chip Brantley co-creator, "White Lies," Brianna Nofil assistant [...]