We talked about the order of order--basically the solution for too much information that was presented in the book "Everything is Miscellaneous". According to Weinberger, the solutions are (1) Physical ordering, (2) a card catalog, and (3) digital. We talked about how us or kids these days are often taken straight to #3, they only know about digital organization. This is really true. To me, digital organization is all I want to do because it is quicker and I am more familiar with it.
I really loved how we learned about Electracy as well. "Electracy focuses on the individual state of mind within which knowing takes place." This quote really stood out to me because I didn't realize what it meant before.
Meta cognition is thinking about thinking. It's almost like reflecting on how you used to think about the world, and comparing that to how you currently think. Then you can consider what you may think about in the future, or compare your thoughts to future thoughts. I am so glad to have learned this term because I think I practice Meta Cognition all the time!
We talked about how our phones are considered an extension of our minds. We can keep knowledge on our phones that we don't have to keep in our heads. For example, we can take a picture of something so we don't have to remember it. Also we could use our phone to store numbers, or just know that we can look up information in the future so we don't have to commit that information to memory now.
"The best camera you have is the one you always have with you." So true! I am currently in Digital Tools class, so taking Psychology of Social Media goes right along with my photoshop and illustrator class. It is great to have them at the same time.
One other thing we went over in class was Crowd Accelerated Innovation. There are three main points:
1. Crowd (there needs to be people that can connect with it or there's no point in your video)
2. Light (you need to be seen, you need an audience). When you get in the "spotlight" it allows the video to be in a position where it can take off and become viral.
3. Desire (people need to want to watch it).
One article I really loved that we watched was http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/field-museum-emily-graslie-brain-scoop-youtube/Content?oid=12236428. It talks about how a girl basically became Bill the Science Guy. We discussed how things like this happen. I really feel like it all has to do with personality more than anything else.
Learning that viral is defined by something that grows exponentially really helped me to understand it better.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Week 2 Reflection
This past week we really got into some good discussions concerning what social media is and also where it came from. I really liked learning about the history of the network. It turns out, the web is something on top of the internet, they are not the same thing. It is always awesome when you realize these kind of things. We were reading "25 Things You may Not Know About the Web on its 25th Birthday" (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/09/25-years-web-tim-berners-lee). One of the points our group (#1) had to present to the class included the point that the internet is different than the web. I really wanted to know more than what the article's short paragraph told us, so I decided to conduct a Google search. The most helpful site I found (http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/Web_vs_Internet.asp) said:
What is The Internet?
The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.
What is The Web (World Wide Web)?
The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizesbrowsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video.
The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, which relies on SMTP, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP. So the Web is just a portion of the Internet, albeit a large portion, but the two terms are not synonymous and should not be confused.
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I found this to be very helpful in learning the difference between the internet and the Web. The "25 Things" article also talked about the idea of the web being free for everyone. How is it that the web can be free and yet there are organizations making billions of dollars from it? Is this moral? Should Facebook and the like be forced to allow everyone free editing just like the traditional Web allows?
What is The Internet?
The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.
What is The Web (World Wide Web)?
The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizesbrowsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video.
The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, which relies on SMTP, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP. So the Web is just a portion of the Internet, albeit a large portion, but the two terms are not synonymous and should not be confused.
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I found this to be very helpful in learning the difference between the internet and the Web. The "25 Things" article also talked about the idea of the web being free for everyone. How is it that the web can be free and yet there are organizations making billions of dollars from it? Is this moral? Should Facebook and the like be forced to allow everyone free editing just like the traditional Web allows?
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Class Reflection Week 1
Social media is the center of our reality right now. It was really amazing to see just how influential social media really is. In a video we watched, some interesting statistics were shared. We were told that about 61% of Facebook users log in daily. The average Facebook user spends just under an hour a day on Facebook. Almost 80 percent of people do not trust traditional advertisements. This means that online advertising is the new way to go. This is all very interesting to consider.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5mid8p4A6Eg
What really stood out to me is what Dr. Kinghorn said about not believing everything in the course. He said that this is all new and experimental, so nothing is really set in stone yet. This made a lot of sense to me, but it also caused me to think about the field of psychology in general. Is anything really set in stone? What about biology, or chemistry? Nothing seems to be able to make it past a theory... even laws are debatable in one aspect or another.
The following video is another thing we discussed in class.
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
This is interesting to me because of the perspective Dr. Turkle took. She seemed to believe that an increasingly digital world is a bad thing. This made me ponder a lot... is it bad to not have face-to-face human contact, or is it just different? Surely it's unnatural to us, but we do things that were unnatural to the people in the past. What about other cultures? Some families do not eat together. A traditional American household may find that fact appalling, but to some people it is not right for men and women to eat at the same table or even in the same room. Is there really a "right" way to do things?
We also discussed the idea of how social media is very young. People my age (21) have grown up with it, so it masquerades and old and experienced, but this is false. I can recall when my mom got her first email address, the day we got wifi, and even (gasp) myspace. I had my top friends and everything on myspace.
I am very excited to try out some new social media for this class!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5mid8p4A6Eg
What really stood out to me is what Dr. Kinghorn said about not believing everything in the course. He said that this is all new and experimental, so nothing is really set in stone yet. This made a lot of sense to me, but it also caused me to think about the field of psychology in general. Is anything really set in stone? What about biology, or chemistry? Nothing seems to be able to make it past a theory... even laws are debatable in one aspect or another.
The following video is another thing we discussed in class.
https://embed-ssl.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html
This is interesting to me because of the perspective Dr. Turkle took. She seemed to believe that an increasingly digital world is a bad thing. This made me ponder a lot... is it bad to not have face-to-face human contact, or is it just different? Surely it's unnatural to us, but we do things that were unnatural to the people in the past. What about other cultures? Some families do not eat together. A traditional American household may find that fact appalling, but to some people it is not right for men and women to eat at the same table or even in the same room. Is there really a "right" way to do things?
We also discussed the idea of how social media is very young. People my age (21) have grown up with it, so it masquerades and old and experienced, but this is false. I can recall when my mom got her first email address, the day we got wifi, and even (gasp) myspace. I had my top friends and everything on myspace.
I am very excited to try out some new social media for this class!
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