Process Posts
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Process Post #11
Q: Develop community guidelines for your site. Why are those the right guidelines for you? How will you implement them? I would like to think that community guidelines for my blog would be pretty straight forward. Plain and simple. I wouldn’t want to implement too many limitations. As much as the blog is about personal opinion, any other personal opinion should be welcome in the comments. In this case any interaction is a good interaction, even if it disagrees. That being said, normal rules should apply. No trolling (characterised by disingenuous posts formulated with the sole purpose of disturbing others). No harsh swearing or harassing. No spamming. Besides these ground…
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Process Post #10
Q: Make a plan for incorporating more transmedia integration into your online publication. What channels will you focus on? Why? *I have realized after writing this post that I interpreted transmedia as meaning forms of social media instead of being made up of many forms of media. I was very torn on how I would be integrating transmedia into my site. The nature of my site made it such that I wasn’t really comfortable associating my personal online identity with the blog. I don’t think a rant blog about kpop is particularly useful to my standing. Perhaps I’m just prejudiced. Luckily, I did find a way to incorporation other platforms…
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Process Post #8
R: Guest Speaker Trevor Battye’s Lecture on Marketing and Monetization I would like to spend this week reflecting on our guest speaker Trevor Battye’s lecture on monetization. The most notable thing I find fairly amusing is the blunt delivery of facts. We argue meaning and ethics, and it is important. But in the fast, cold, hard world of business and monetization Trevor presented, value is value. We often frown upon huge corporate monopolies and the ungodly amount of power they wield. But in an entrepreneurial sense, nothing is more profitable than a monopoly. He made that clear, and I greatly appreciate his candour. Unfortunately, in a capitalistic society of money,…
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Process Post #7
P: Digital Media Literacy. What’s the importance of researched “neutrality”? I thought it incredibly important to take a step back and asses the value of neutrality. I find myself in the unique position of someone who is chronically online, and very exposed to online opinion. To perhaps be a bit reductive, in general those who are chronically online are quick to radicalism. I am and have long been in the school of thought that values research and “both sides” over forming rash decisions about my stance. I have always found this right. And yet sometimes I am not so sure. Often the subjects of political debate on online spaces involve…
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Process Post #5
Q: Please pick a website of your choosing and describe what works or doesn’t work. Maybe this is a blasphemous choice but I decided to choose posiel.com. Overall, I think that it does what’s necessary to fulfill its objective, which is being an informative hub of information to students taking PUB101. The colour scheme is neutral with an effective subtle touch of red and blue. The menu is clear and easy to navigate. The feed addition lets you peruse the student’s tagged content. In a way, the beige undertone sets an academic mood and is incredibly suitable. Despite the easy navigation, one problem I found myself running into consistently was…
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Process Post #4
Q: What audience have you been imagining thus far? How has that imagined audience informed your design and editorial decisions? To be completely transparent, I don’t imagine there being much of an audience for this.. This was a huge factor when I was struggling to decided on a subject for my blog. There is not much personal value for me in publicizing the content of this blog into the world. Perhaps like-minded fans? But really, WordPress is the last place those people would congregate. Thus, I have veered more in a direction of a personal journal blog, for my own reference and pleasure above all others. Thus, I have focused…
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Process Post #3
Q: Map out your website, visualizing which components should be placed where. Where will your PUB101 content live? I want to keep my POSIEL content confined to one tab so it is organized and easy to view. I am also thinking the POSIEL assignments and posts may be very out of character from the geeral content of the blog. Because of this part of me is considering options to keep it hidden? So as not to disturb the immersion of the rest of the blogs content. I am struggling to link my blog with any of my actual personal socials because I do not feel comfortable linking subjects that are…
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Process Post #2
Q: Write a blog post about the work you did this week. How does what you’ve created so far relate to the vision board you made last week? I will be completely honest in saying I really struggled to grasp the straws of what was necessary to work on our blog. There is so much freedom in the assignment that I feel like a fish out of water, flailing to identify what is good and necessary to fulfill what required of me. I definitely visited the semantics of WordPress because it is also something completely new to me and left me baffled and confused. I wish I also had more…
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Process Post #1
Q: Reflect and comment on your stranger encounter. How did it differ from your online interactions? I find that my stranger encounter was a bit plain. I ended up going the most obvious route and speaking to someone in an elevator. To be completely honest I am painfully aware of how I am different online and in person. With my fair share of social anxiety, I often pull out all the stops to make the best first impression in every physical interaction I feel reflects on me as a person. I dare say I have made a formula of things that seem like “green flags” to strangers and act accordingly.…
