Over the course of this semester I have learned a lot about Online Collaboration and eSociety. I started out this class as a Communication major and after about a week of class I changed my major to eSociety. I enjoyed how at the beginning of each class period we would take fifteen to twenty minutes to discuss social media news. Although I did not always have social media news to share I often enjoyed getting to listen to what other groups came up with and the topic that we ended up discussing in class. This made me feel like I had some sense of what was happening in the world if I had not be able to read theSkimm, which is my daily news that gets sent to me via email every morning.
When we were asked to blog every week about what we had learned in class and about anything really I thought to myself what am I going to say in a blog. I have never been one to journal or use a blog to write about my thoughts on a certain topic but as the semester continued and we started to learn about different topics that I found interesting, I found it easy to blog about these topics. Some of my favorite topics that we covered in this class were What is Collaboration Anyway, Black Lives Matter movement, and our Unit 2 Project on a current campaign that was helping a greater cause. What is Collaboration Anyway was one of the first readings that we completed this semester and this is what I always think of when we are doing some sort of group project and the levels that we have to complete to be able to collaborate.
The Black Lives Matter movement was something I found interesting because of how large of a movement it is. I knew what this movement was and what the people involved stood for but as we were asked to read more in-depth about this subject I began to learn more about the history and meaning behind this movement. Along with the Black Lives Matter movement we learned about algorithms and how they play a large part in this movement.
For our Unit 2 Projects we were given the freedom to choose any sort of campaign that we wanted so we chose #Prayforparis when we first started but then were reminded that we had to choose a current event so my group met again and all agreed on Subaru's #Sharethelove campaign. I enjoyed this project and topic because it was something that Subaru was doing to help benefit four different charities by having someone buy or lease a Subaru. Throughout all of our Unit projects that we were in small groups for I was able to collaborate with my group in an effective way so that we would all be able to work together.
I enjoyed blogging about topics that we covered in class and also enjoyed reading the blogs of my classmates. Nick's blog shared his blog in class about the Obama and Joe Biden memes that were all over the internet during and after the Election. These memes were about the "bromance" that Barack Obama and Joe Biden shared and the fact that they will be leaving the White House soon. This blog talked about spreadable media and how these simple memes have taken over the internet in such a short period of time. Emma's blog post about Dialectical Thinking was clear and gave examples along with her own personal thoughts and reflections about this topic. Lastly I found Ana's blog about the extra credit in the library on Hacking and Open Source Culture interesting to read about. I attended this extra credit opportunity and it was interesting to be able to read about someone else's thoughts and experiences about something I attended as well.
In the end I enjoyed this class and I will take what I have learned with me in this class to the other ESOC classes that I will be taking. Thank you Professor Daly for making this 9:30am class enjoyable and allowing our small class to be a community.
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