4/25 Post

For my final post, I would like to talk about what i have learned over the course of the semester. I really like this class, it taught me a lot of how teams work together, through Tuckman's Group Development Stages to how people actually collaborate together. I thought it was very interesting how collaboration is basically the root of all social media platforms. Like when we learned about how the Ferguson protest were broadcasted on social media in a practical way. Through many examples throughout the semester, I see social media and working in teams very differently. Even in the daily teams I participate in, I dissect which stage we are on and how this team will ultimately work out. When I worked with my group for the Unit One project, we all worked so well together I was comfortable enough to work with them again for the Unit Two project. Now since I can see what the future of the group may end up to be, any group that I might now feel comfortable to be in, I know when to step out. I think another really important argument I learned in this class was the idea of women as computer programmers. My dream job is to work for as the head of a company's social media. Here's a link of women who made it the work force. I think taking coding classes should be important to my pursuit and I believe that there is not a better time to end the stereotype thinking that programming is a “man’s job.” This idea can involve everything that we learned this semester. Women should have the right to study whatever they want, it will take a team to collaborate and change this idea that society has. It can be supported on social making their effort spreadable for others to see easily. People should be given the right to remix it into voicing how they feel about this issue about equality. We have the ability to connect worldwide in seconds. This class has taught me the tools on how to correctly dissect through platforms and the positives and negatives of online collaboration. So big thanks to Prof Daly !!

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4/18 Post

Hello everyone!! The semester is soon coming to an end and we are officially working on our Unit two projects. Last Tuesday we had a speaker who specializes in the Adobe softwares that are free for University of Arizona’s students to use. He explained the software that has pre made videos that incorporates transitions and fun effects. It was a great way to show an example of what is needed for this paper. Thursday we had class online and we incorporated a weekly reading to our Unit Two Project. We explained how the idea of spreadability is was so helpful for people to understand how poorly killer whales are treated in Sea World. Here’s a link briefly explaining what our video is going to roughly about. We had our second response paper due last Friday as well. It was an example of something built off the work of others. I write about how my photography was a source for University of Arizona’s newspaper, The Daily Wildcat. I think it was an interesting way I explained collaborating with different people for an end product. Using this example really helped me understand the concept more. The next project we are working on is finishing the Unit Two Project. I really like my group. We work diligently and have a very good end product. I am excited for my classmates to see our video in class! Till next time!!

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4/12 Post

Hello everyone!! The semester is quickly coming to an end and I can not wrap my head around that I am almost done with my first year of college. Last week we worked heavily with understanding how to form a page on Wikipedia. On Tuesday, we had to go through a tutorial that taught use how to edit a page either with coding or visual effect. I think coding is very interesting, but how they explained it for a person that has not formed a code in their life I was still very confused. When we had class the following day, we had to choose an article that was already made my group chose the page about Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy for Girls. Here’s a link more about the amazing school! Prof Daly wanted us to chose a page that did not have a good amount of information. We added more information we found online to the page. It was easy to do because instead of coding we were able to use the visual effect that showed the same way someone else would see if they would search up the page. It was pretty cool to see that we contributed our knowledge through research to the page. Before we edited that page, I thought it was going to be a hard process, but it makes sense why everyone can so easily edit any page they want.

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4/3 Post

Hello everyone!! Last week we spoke much about “open culture”. Open culture are softwares that are have free licensing for anyone to use their sources. The four freedoms that are involved are using, studying, sharing, and modifying. All these four freedoms contribute to a public domain making America so successful in public markets. For Thursday’s homework we had to watch a movie called RIP: Remix Manifesto. It is an hour and a half all about how people should have their right to sample parts of audio or video sources to create their own masterpieces. I think copyright laws are outrageous with how much they fine people and other repercussions people face. If people are able to cite articles online written by others to make their essays better, why can not people who want to use audio and video do the same? We are at the day and age that audio and video is what control how we see ads or public service announcements. We also had to watch a ted talk with Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is a major player in the realm of the copyright laws and people’s cases. Here is a link about him. He spoke about laws that choke creativity. He said something that was very interesting remixing videos or audio is not privacy, someone is just saying or doing something differently. He related to how people had to change their thoughts on trespassing as airplanes would fly over head their properties. When new laws were enacted they did not think of airplanes as trespassing anymore. If people would think that others are using their music for good and not to negatively manipulate their songs, this idea of copyright infringement would have a whole other idea behind it.

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3/27 Post

Hello!! Last week we had a great guest speaker come to our class to talk about the women in computing. Her name was Amelia Marsh. I thought her presentation was very interesting teaching the class about how low the percentage is for women working in the computer programming field. There are a couple areas that have a higher percentage, but overall, there needs to be more women working in this area of study. We were asked questions to answer if University of Arizona’s computer programming track does not discriminate towards women wanting to study. I heard my classmates response and I was really astonished at the answers. One women in our class explained that she started with a computer programming major, but changed to ITSA major because the men in her classes did not want to listen to her input since they automatically thought she was wrong since she was a women. The movie I explained in my last post distinctly explained that women and men have the same capacity of learning if they are brought up the same exact way. It really took me by surprise that so many women are intimidated to major in computer programming because of how they are treated in the classes on campus here. Here is a link to basically explain why there are not enough women computer programmers. Another subject we spoke about is the game League of Legends. This game was being researched for having a problem with discouraging new players to play the game.  Older users were using abusive language based on having a bad day. Researchers attempted to fix the problem with pop ups, or nudges, to influence behavior change. This lead to new and older players being more successful in the game. I think it was very interesting how they had to choose specific colors to correlate towards less abusive language being said.

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3/22 Post

Hello again!! Just got back from my spring break it was very fun and relaxing. Over the break, we had to watch a movie called Code: Debugging The Gender Gap. Honestly, I loved the movie, I think it really spoke out to one of the many gender inequality workforces’ problems we have in this society. The movie started with a percentage about how many women in the future are going to be working as computer programmers and that was only 3% out of the 29% increase. Most computer programmers will be from outside of the US. Would that percentage increase if there would be more girls as programmers since the beginning? In the movie, they showed a perfect example of why there is a need of more women programmers. In the beginning of vehicle air bags being implemented into cars, many women and children were being killed rather than saved when getting into an accident. What was the main cause to this problem? The fact that there were only white men on the team making these airbags. They only thought of their body size, shape, and weight. When the airbags would deploy it would basically only save the men. If there were women on that team, there would have been a lot less deaths because their size, shape, and weight would have been incorporated into the making of the air bags. The need for better representation of both genders is crucial, but also there is a need for diverse ethnicities to be on the team as well. Our future is computer programming and our future will still need both men and women to come up with deciding factors for important problems needed to be resolved. Here's a link for the trailer.

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3/5 Post

Hello everyone!! Presentations went very well last week. I learned a lot of new information through different social movements. My group presented on Thursday and I think we did pretty well. We had so much information we lost track of time, but I would rather be over time than under time. At the end of our presentation, someone was still a little confused about the overall goal Free the Nipple aspires to do. Basically to put it into a smaller concept, it is for women to feel okay with being topless if wanted to be. It is for women to not feel what their body is not equal to a man’s body on a hot summer’s day walking around. I think the best group of Tuesday’s presentations was Caitlyn Jenner’s transformation starting the movement of people to be open to transgenders. I think they had great explanations and examples of how much social media was involved with her change. Overall, everyone’s websites were very interesting to hear how much social media molded the path of interaction of users to advocate their issue. After all the presentations were presented on Thursday, Prof Daly announced to us that our midterm is this upcoming Tuesday instead of Thursday. I wished we had that extra day to work together in class with questions in the quizzes we were confused about. Anyways, time to study up! Hope everyone has a fun and safe spring break! Here’s a couple tips on how to stay safe during your week off!! Till next time..

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