Aaliyah CP #5

Date/Time: Thursday (2/11)

Location: Zoom

Topic discussed: technology and advertisements

Cultural and/or linguistic topics you and your partner learned: My partner and I learned about some new social media algorithms and how sites like Twitter use peoples' most recently used emoji to market to them. We then discussed American and Venezuelan advertisements and commercials.

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