Collaborating on a Name

Collaborating on a Name

It amazes me how far my blogs have come over the course of the semester. At first I was not a fan of having to create blog post, to me it was confusing and difficult and in my eyes pointless. I never thought about why I was doing, all I cared was getting my assignments done. It wasn’t until near the middle of the semester that I realized what I was doing, by writing my blog I was collaborating the content discussed in class with my own personal interests/experiences. The blog that turned it all around for me was when I wrote about the anti ana blog. I was able to understand the conversation we had in class and still apply my own outside knowledge to a sensitive subject that offered a unique perspective.

This is the beauty of all my classmate’s blogs, every single person in class offers a point of view that their own. Karen is a journalism major so I definitely took inspiration from her blog. She clearly has skills in how design a well written web piece that conveys her thoughts but still allows the reader to create their own.  Secondly Noelle always added thoughts in class so seeing where she was at with course topics helped me process in my own way where I was. Klaudia, to me was very articulate in forming her thoughts so if I never need a push to get my thoughts out of my head I would just look at her page and take inspiration if needed. Surrounding myself with people in this class helped tremendously. This class is not something that any singular person can get, you must work together to see all angles. I noticed whenever I dealt with a group we rarely ever used the first idea that was given. In fact, the second or third wasn’t used either. The art of collaborating is only becoming more and more prevalent in culture.

Lastly, I must say. Blogging has become almost fun? That’s right I said. I am happy for this opportunity to do it and am interested to see if I will continue this in the future, but in case i don't....

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Online Activism

Online Activism

In this E-Soc 211 class the topic of social collaboration and involvement have been discussed often. While I learned this topic it was hard to translate them from theory/concept into applicable structures that I can see in my life. However, then the unit three project ended. This project had us come together as classmates and create a list of task for an online movement. This moment is when I realized that I can see a direct application of ideas. On Facebook I have 774 friends and on twitter I have 468, that gives me a total of roughly 1042 people see my content that I post.

This thought isn’t shared to sound vain or shallow. However, I means that I have a voice. This assignment showed me that I had a voice. The cause I was supposed to indorse was HopePhones if I went through with promoting them on my voice media there is potential for over 1000 people connected to me can encounter this information. I never once thought that I had power like that. I am left with one singular thought, what would happen if there was a cause I was truly passionate about?How could I advance that movement?

Access Granted

Access Granted

Technology has opened doors that we have never seen before, we interact with information that we never had access to before. Modern society has made strong advances in what the typical Americans can do with a technological, we can educate ourselves, communicate with other, control almost all aspects of our life, and create content that is reshaping how we view the world. While I do love where society is at I tend to feel that this is a little bias. Earlier this semester my computer crashed and it took me a whole weekend to get a new one. This was probably the most stressful weekend I’ve ever had in college. With college shifting to increasingly more online communities that means the students are always supposed to be connected into the school network. In years past, I viewed school as a group that I entered into when I was in class or doing homework, but I was able to disconnect when I was not participating in any of those activities. While yes, it is important to have access to information so we can learn outside of class to I realized if you do not have a way to interact to the group you are completely lost.

http://socrates.arts.ubc.ca/agora/2015/04/platos-allegory-of-the-cave-travelling-exposure/

This took me to think about what we talked about in the beginning of the semester in terms of ant like group think. Collaboration should be mindless following the ants in front of us because then we lose all sense of self and value. This is the direction I fear that online education is going. I have taken online classes where I have never seen or heard from the teacher. Society in the United States has now shifted, if we don’t have access to technology (especially the internet) then we lose value. A college student couldn’t function if they didn’t have access to a computer, everything being due online is changing the conversation. While yes, I believe this is good, I am also wary about the direction we are going. Sherry Turkle has always been caution in fully jumping onto the technological bandwagon, and I use to think her arguments didn’t have merit. Now however, I see that she made some strong points that need to be heard.