1. #futureofmedia
Into The Future

2. Jodie Neville BA English and Media Theory Experience and Projects
@JodieNeville
jodieneville.wordpress.com
Due  to  my  being  on  the  BA  English  and  Media  route  way  I  do  mainly  
theory  modules  and  lack  production  work.  It  is  therefore  even  more  
important  for  me  to  carry  out  useful  work  experience  placements  
and  projects  to  develop  my  skills  and  show  I  can  fit  into  a  work  place  
environment.  Aspiring  Marketing  Professional.  

3. Skills
Skills I have developed as Web/Social Media administrator for BCU Student Services (Careers and Job Prospects).
The ability to give web administrative support.
Maintaining daily activity on the Careers and Job Prospects social media accounts.
Google Analytics
Specifically I maintain and update web content on the Careers and Job Prospects iCity and external web pages. Both maintaining content that exists as well as developing new content. One of the things I’m working on at the minute is developing a hand out on how to use Social Media and a blog/webpage to network and job search which will be added onto their iCity skills section. I’ve also researched Employer and Vacancy sources to add onto the ELSS and Business School pages. I also promote events and workshops the careers team are running on Social Media as well as creating events on iCity and eventbrite for students to register to.
Namely Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. There is evidence of growth on these sites since my start date. FIGURES
   For  my reports  on  traffic  and  traffic  sources  I  have  become  
familiar  with  Google  Analytics.
 This  will  be  useful  for  my  
aspirational  career  destination  in  Marketing  as  I  will  have  become  
familiar  with  the  collation  and  distribution  of  data.

4. Growth since start date
Twitter:1415
Facebook:1139
LinkedIn:1089
Twitter:1446 (+31)
Facebook:1,180 (+41)
LinkedIn: 1,130 (+41)
Since starting the last week of March approx 6 weeks

5. Careers and Job Prospects Social Media sites can be found at
Facebook:
LinkedIn Group: Birmingham City University Careers & Job Prospects

6. Other Experience
Frontrunner  Leadership  –  (3  day  course) 3rd-­‐  5th  March  2014.
 Creative  Assistant  (Voluntary)
The Public  –  West  Bromwich August  2012 (two weeks).
 Reporting (Voluntary) Startright  Training – ongoing
Being  accepted  onto  the  course  was  a  great  opportunity  to  
develop  my  leadership  skills  and  hear  first-­‐hand  from  leaders  of  
local  and  national  companies  about  their  experiences  and  what  
they  look  for  in  leaders  of  the  future.  At  the  end  of  the  course,  I  
have  developed  my  leadership  skills,  applied  them  to  real  work  
challenges  and  improved  my  confidence.
I  had  the  opportunity  to  provide  tours  and  get  in  their  in-­‐
house  store  ‘Make’  as  a  assistant,  helping  devise  and  
create  digital  workshops  and  processing  created  by  
our  school  and  holiday  activities.  I  also  grasped  a  greater  
understanding  of  the  events  and  cultural  industries  including  
stage  set-­‐ups,  marketing,  and  audio-­‐visual  technologies.
Startright  Training
September  2013  –  Present,  Smethwick
For  my  on-­‐going  Work  Experience  with  Startright  Training  I  both  
Put together a  bi-­‐monthly newsletter  to  circulate  to  their  clients  in  order  to  improve  the  
companies  networking  abilities

7. Projects and Research Position as Level-Up Mentor
Research Assignments – to view   !
On line 6/7 the words ‘Government forces’ particularly the latter word ‘forces’ suggests oppression and therefore danger. According to the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ the word ‘forces’ means “As an attribute of physical action or movement: Strength, impetus, violence, or intensity of effect.” OR some of the more severe meanings state “To use violence to; to violate, ravish”. (This also suggests the idea of otherness, to view the government in this space as the enemy.
My  duties  as  ‘Level  Up  Mentor’  included  participation  in  seminars  and  
workshops  for  the  ‘What  Works’  programme,  
strategic  level  planning.  Coming  
up  with  ideas.  Presented  the  ideas  and  got  the  funding  to  go  forward  with  this  
project.  
Putting  those  ideas  into  practice  the  creation  and  administration  of  a  Moodle-­‐
based  learning  plaform,  pre-­‐induction  activities  via  social  media,  collaboration  
on  the  organisation  of  induction  activities  and  eventually  post-­‐induction  
arrangements

8. Future Projects and Research
Marketing  Assistant  (Voluntary) Hereward  College  -Coventry  August  2014  (3-4 weeks)
During  my  placement  with  Hereward  College  I  will  be  working  on  1.)Production  of  publicity  and  promotional  materials 2.)  Collation  and  distribution of press releases  3.)  Maintaining  and  developing  stakeholder  relationships  4.)Social  Media  and  Website  updates.

9. Dissertation Proposal
How are gendered orientalist discourses represented in The Guardian?
When carrying out an analysis of the way that meanings are communicated through a combination of linguistic and visual representational strategies, it is important to identify how the different affordances of the two modes have been used to create different meanings. (Mayr and Machin, 2012).

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