About me

Hi there and welcome to my Digital Culture and Information (DCI) portfolio! My name is Simona Radeva, I’m 23 years old, and I come from Varna, Bulgaria. I’m currently a graduating senior at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, studying Journalism, Digital Culture and Information, and French. I (mostly) write, sing, dance, cook, travel, create, and constantly reinvent myself. I’ve lived all over the world, but some of the places include Armenia, France, and the United Kingdom. I’ve traveled to over 20 countries around the world, and I’m very passionate about news, global affairs, as well as global digital culture, research, and development.

In this portfolio, I’ll be showcasing the digital work I completed as a DCI minor over my 4 years at Washington and Lee University: from the first class I took, a first-year seminar on Black Mirror and digital culture, to my last one, the DCI capstone where I had to develop my own digital humanities project from ground zero (See Women, Worded). But first, why did I decide to minor in DCI in the first place? Find out below!

The main reason I chose the DCI minor is that I’ve always been interested in the intersection of the physical and the digital. Technology has infiltrated all aspects of our life and I think it’s imperative for all of us to know how to navigate digital media and to be mindful consumers and producers of online content. I’ve always been quite tech savvy and developed a passion about web content creation from the moment I started my Tumblr blog at 11 or 12. That was the moment I first encountered HTML and CSS and started playing around with themes and multimedia and “curating” my own little virtual world. Joining the DCI program has definitely allowed me to further explore this passion of mine, understand how to communicate more “fluently” on the web, and put some newly gained web creation skills to practice.

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