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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