Thursday, December 4, 2008
On New Topics (required 10)
In general, there is not much more we could have covered in this class- I feel like we touched on a lot of interesting things, but if I had to pick I would say facebook could have used a little more discussion. For instance, with The Wisdom of Crowds we could have looked into facebook groups and how they affect peoples decision making, or how new facebook applications catch and become common items on everyones facebook over time. With the Cult of the Amateur, we could have discussed how facebook is ruining everyones lives in that most people can no longer go a day without using it, and some people would prefer to communicate over facebook instead of in person. With iSpy we could have looked into how all the creators of individual applications could probably watch who uses their application, how surveillance is possible on facebook besides the obvious "facebook stalking". We could have also had a debate on whether or not having our private conversations with other people being posted online for anyone and everyone to see is beneficial to us or not.
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I like some of your ideas…I think it would’ve been cool to read The Facebook Book by Greg Antwan. You should check it out!
I really like your idea of having a debate in class as part of an assignment, especially since all of the students have such different opinions when it comes to Facebook or the use of the Internet and media in general. I think it would be really interesting to see the arguments presented on different sides and opinions.
Everyone has their own beliefs about facebook. I would find it interesting if we had a debate to hear various sides. Everyone in college has facebook and the population continues to grow. We may have to have people to regulate the debate because some people are way too serious about facebook.
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