Week 11

We had a relatively relaxed week not having class on Thursday but we had to read over the Spreadable media article and discuss it with our groups online. The idea that media now a days is very easy to spread I find to be very beneficial for people to stay up to date with important things that are occurring. I am active on twitter and online communities so I have friends all over the U.S and spreadable media keeps me informed of the ins and outs of what goes on. Stickiness of media is how something causes deeper engagement for a kind of media, and through twitter I was able to follow a crime in Cleveland where I have a friend. I was worried about his safety and through this I was able to keep up to date with what was happening with this very scary situation that has been dealt with. On a lighter note our group is planning out our project and we are making progress, for those curious here is a link for the crime for the Cleveland Shooter

Week 10 blog

During the week we had to learn how to make / edit pages on Wikipedia. Wikipedia being a very important collaborations tool, information is gathered by many users and brought together to give people (mostly) accurate information about a topic. My group decided to edit Baby Furniture which was a pretty random topic but there was plenty of things for us to look up and add to this preexisting page. While I found that the training modules were somewhat tedious it was useful especially for making links. Good collaboration can keep sources of information like wikipedia safe, I have seen my fair share of pages that have been tampered or outright wrong (either by people messing around for by a potential typo) and the ability to be able to help keep things in order keeps it healthy. What is your thoughts on Wikipedia? Do you think that it is a good way to have information? Do you think its good to allow anyone to change it?

week 9?

I missed a few of these posts but I think I have the right day for it, anyways this week we had a guest speaker who discussed with us the differences in diversity in jobs in different areas. There is noticeable differences in both gender and ethnicity in the data that our guest speaker provided, which I found rather interesting. Is there really a reason why this would occur? I know that we discussed reasons for this occurrence, how jobs with generally more chances for creative thinking to be involved have a greater amount of diversity. And with diversity does come new ideas that can branch off to something amazing, and with everyone having synergy and working together it allows for better outcomes. Which leads to why would diversity be so low in other areas, sure theres less chance for creativity but the numbers are very drastically lower that it is concerning. Why do you think theres such a split and what do you think can be done to lower this?