Discussion Post One

During Tuesday and Thursday of our class, we have been talking about how social media has changed the way that we can access information. We watched a Ted talk, and also talked about Black Lives Matter and the organizations that support it. Also examined how #BlackLivesMatter does not have a leader, but more of individualistic protests and stories from Twitter, and other social media platforms that can convey a message in a whole new way. The lady from the Ted Talk also talked about the journalists from Turkey, and how someone does not have to go into a violent area of the world as a journalist anymore, there are people that are live and in the country that can post about it right from their smart phone. I think it is really interesting how the way of protests are changing, and really anybody can voice their opinion now. To watch the Ted talk, follow the link  here. Photo Courtesy of: Wikipedia Commons

Anika Sands October 19,2017 ESOC 211 Professor Daly This week, we looked at the article, "how to make gaming more collaborative and less toxic" . I thought that this article was very interesting for two reasons. First of all, the researcher studied neuroscience at the University of Washington, and worked in Bellevue, Washington which is where I'm from. Also, the experiment that they did had lots of factors that had never been researched before. I think that they picked a great game to do the experiment on, (League of Legends) because of the type of people that play the game, and also the collaborative based format of the game. Studies keep finding that when things are communicated to people in a positive and not negative way, the reform rate is much higher. Photo courtesy of: Pixels 

Anika Sands October 12th, 2017 During this week of class, instead of meeting online, we collaborated online as a class. I think it is very cool that even though we were not in a classroom all together, we were all still able to learn and discuss together the information that we learned. I liked the way that Tophat  asked questions throughout the reading, and brought a lot of interesting information to the table. The topic that I am going to focus on that was discussed in the reading is, civil inattention. According to the reading, civil inattention is, "the common understanding by you and by others in society- that you don't get into other people's business. We were asked to respond to "do you practice civil inattention online?", I think that it is very hard with social media to follow civil inattention. People are constantly following their friends, family, celebrities, companies and almost nothing is private anymore. It is so easy for screenshots or...

This week we completed our group presentations, and all six groups shared their presentations about the examples they found of group collaboration. I liked how every group was very unique, it made the presentations much more interesting and I loved watching all the different things that people came up with. Another factor of the presentation is the they were all about the five stages of group development. It was interesting that as we were examining the parts of group development, as our groups were developing as well. Each individual is good at something, and when we were working together, all of our strengths came together so that people could do what they felt best helped the group. Each group needs someone to drive the group, to do the actual work of the assignment and presenting. I think that my group was very successful because we combined all of talents to make and present our website,  School of Collaboration .              ...