Danica Tomber

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Danica Tomber is an applied linguist.
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Danica Tomber is an applied linguist with a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from Portland State University. Her interests span science communication, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and literacy.
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Portland State University | September | 2023
This study examines posts from NASA’s official @nasa Instagram account in order to understand how the agency communicated with the public in 2022 about its Artemis I mission. It concludes that NASA’s Instagram posts displayed an action- and transformation-oriented message centered around storytelling of the agency’s goals and activities. Overall, the data present a cohesive message in terms of multimodal communication for the general public.