In class . . .
We’ll be building some practical definitions of the following terms for use in this week’s activity.
Community | Social media | Stakeholders | Sources | Public good | Digital community | Activism | Benefit corporation | Network analysis | Engagement | Ethos | Accountability | Authenticity | Transparency
Our work this semester will interact with communities that all into the following categories: non-profit organizations, academic projects, and activist networks. We will work towards common definitions/understandings of the above terms so that we can study these communities with shared language and priorities.
Our reading:
Read the “Introduction” to Digital Community Engagement by Wingo, Heppler, and Schadewald
Our activity:
Sign up for one of the 7 prompts in the #activities channel for this week. Each student chooses a platform specific digital community (as defined in class) that fits the category defined in their thread. Create a shared document (One Drive, Google Doc, or PDF) that includes:
(The phrase “with annotations” below means that for each artifact or source, you should include 1-3 sentence annotation that summarizes the source and explains its importance, relevance, or reason for inclusion.)
- a description of the community (3 sentences)
- a list of five artifacts (social media posts from community members), with annotations
- a list of three sources important to the community (academic, journalistic, “other”), with annotations
- an analysis of the ways in which people communicate within that community (3 sentences)
- connection to the Rhetoric UnTextbook reading from week one (3 sentences)
- connection to the Digital Community Engagement, “Introduction” reading above (3 sentences)
Post an open link or a PDF in the same #activities thread where you signed up by _____
