User talk:Akm00018

1 Online Visibility
How many online profiles do you have? Do you remember all your accounts and user names? I have definitely more than 9 and cannot remember all of the information I put in there. Normally I even just use the most favourite ones like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. During creating all these different accounts, I had to put in a lot of personal data. All my profile settings are on private, so just my friends and allowed people can see what I post or share, but as we all might know by now, whatever goes online never leaves the internet again. So I keep the postings to a minimum myself. But through my hobbies I get tagged in a lot of pictures and posts. Especially when in do another shooting, my photographer posts a new picture from it. Like this it is both easier for me and harder. Because in the first place I don’t have to update my profile myself and still get some new pictures or updates done. Secondly I cannot really control what is posted about me. In the most cases I get asked if the picture is okay to be shown online or not, but sometimes I cannot decide. When I check my profiles the most of the last posts are from friends, from events or announcements about shootings I did. Barely something from me personally. By all these tags not only my friends can see these pictures or posts, but also their friends and the public, depends on the settings of their profiles. So on the one hand everybody can see this information about me, without putting any work in it. On the other hand, if one person tries hard enough and search intensely enough they can find even my private information online, because it is just a matter of work amount to find anything about someone online. Normally we don’t do that but it is still possible. While I know this fact, I try not to post so much myself. And I think I have just the control in the moment I post something, in that specific moment when I choose what I want to post. But after I pushed the button to publish it, I gave up all the control because then it is online and whichever company saves the information has the power over it. Additionally, there is always the possibility to remember the accounts when you sign in, like remember the password and username, to make it faster to sign in. It is also a way of keep our information, because the server we use in that moment to sign in might remember the information we use to sign up. Not just the password and username, but also the IP-address and sometimes even the location from where we sign in. This is exactly what happens to us as the always-online culture where we barely can get rid of the online platforms and all the accounts. Not just the ones we use actively but also the ones we forgot to use. So do you remember all of your old accounts?

2 Annotated Biography
Wils, T., 2017: ´Marvel and the storytelling industry: Characters in an age of media convergence´, Screen Education, No. 86, Sep 2017: 72-81

The article from Mr. Wils deals with the convergence in media trough the example of the Marvel Studios and the migration of the Marvel characters into other studios and media by the methods of transmedia storytelling. Wils explains the way how media convergence works after the definition of Henry Jenkins and puts out why the Marvel Company is such a successful one. He uses here knowledge about the history of the Marvel Company and based this with different example of business deals which Marvel has done in the last years. Marvel is not only a great example for the business of Hollywood movies but also perfect for how the media convergence can be based on the storytelling theory in media. Wils brings up in which way the characters connect the different storytelling platforms in TV, the Comic book community and online. Marvels goal to key reasons to regain control, both over the creative and industrial segments, are for Wils the cause why the Company is able to hold so much power over divergent media platforms. This article is a well-researched source to explain the way media convergence can work through the infusion of Marvel with Disney but also the transmedia storytelling of the characters and how the different audiences, both causal and niche, build a big mass audience for the whole Marvel universe. The article is mostly limited to the Marvel company, but it could be used as an introduction to the different connections of media convergence and what is useful in using it or building up on it. Therefore, can the article give a first impression for the transmedia storytelling, especially with the cross-media synergy of the Marvel characters. Additionally, should the article be a necessary source in research about the media convergence in the film industry and the effects on connected media platforms like books or videogames. For the special knowledge it would be also able to be used to explain the Hollywood business and some strategies in marketing to promote movies or their characters. At last the article is possibly an overall source, in both the media and the business branch. It gives us an impression how simple and complex the media works at the same time and what it might take to set a foot in them and hold the position for years.

Research:

Jenkins, H. 2006: ´Convergence Culture: Where old and new media collide´, New York University Press, page 1-25

comments
This is a really good annotated bibliography. The article you have been able to find is a perfect example of how convergence is used on such a huge scale in Hollywood but at the core its main use is to continue storytelling on multiple platforms. Obviously as we are in the same collaborative essay group and our focus is on how Marvel uses convergence, this article will be a great basis. The fact it also discusses Henry Jenkins ideas on convergence is especially useful as his understanding and research of convergence is what we are focusing our basic ideas on. I think with this article and the one I've done my annotated bibliography on we have a good basis on how to build our research and ideas for our collaborative essay.

(Bex.frew (discuss • contribs) 00:26, 16 March 2018 (UTC))

Collaborative Research Exercice
I thought exactly the same. Although the Marvel Company is especially big in the branch of movies and comic books. No wonder they are such successful. But when we did decide to go for Marvel, it was a great opportunity. They are involved in almost every kind of media that exists. And during publish so many different kind of media work, they are partly separated so we can explain each part of work step itself or bring it in a bigger content, like we do in our essay later. But I found the article also really interesting because it may give the chance to be used as an example, not just for Convergence but also in transmedia storytelling, or maybe as an example how a company is doing different steps in the different businesses. We know now that Marvel gives us the chance to explain media convergence with an existing company, and while it´s so big, we have the choice, to go either for all spaces of convergence or just for a few. I even think if somebody of us is really into that topic, and knows a lot about Marvel or is interested in the way comic books were used as a base for movies, this person could definitely write an essay on that topic on their own. I would go for the transmedia storytelling, because it definitely hits my interest in books and movies. Additionally, someone could compare the transmedia storytelling between Marvel and DC. They are both in the comic book business and both do movies. So I would find it interesting in which points they both follow the same path or do not. On the business site, it would be interesting to see how Marvel and DC are working in the same business and how their revalidation is taking influence on the outcome of their work. Real comic book fans know the difference, but for the most people, they both just create good movies to entertain us. Like I said above, Marvel mostly is useful for three topics, media convergence, transmedia storytelling (although they are both connected at some point) and in the business section. Luckily we can leave the business intelligence of Marvel out of our analysis, but if someone with interest in the company and how they struck their business deals would try to analyse this section, Marvel would grow much bigger again. Otherwise every company in Hollywood which makes movies would be able to be analysed. I, myself, would be more interested in the transmedia storytelling in Marvel, because so many of their characters are playing a role in other stories, too (the easiest example is the Avengers group, where every member has their own story too).

Reflective Account
Our lives are changing, during the digitalization and its many functions by now. So companies and universities are changing their work and learning ways to online platforms and channels. During this course work I got introduced to the partner-platform from Wikipedia, Wikibooks. It works like the same, we can create a user page and can post our own discussions or just edit on other user pages, whatever you like to do. To use Wikibooks in this course, it could have made our group work easier, because we could all edit and work on the same page. Everybody could see what changes on this page and is informed about what is going on. But on the other hand every other person on Wikibooks can edit our page, too. So the risk that someone else wants to make some joke and includes any fake information in our project was high. As a cloud platform, Wikibooks is accessible to everyone with an internet-connection, therefore it may connect the whole world and makes it easier to share knowledge. Whatever someone wants to know, it might be found on Wikibooks. Or if you cannot find it, you can easily add it there for the next person which might search for it. What I consider a big positive use of Wikibooks is that it makes it possible to start a group project with people you do not have to see personally. I could start any kind of group page with people from China or Canada. In the case of my group work it was easier the meet my group members, because we all did not know Wikibooks and had to figure out its many complicated functions.

As a cloud platform Wikibooks can be sued as an example of the changes of learning or even working on our society today. Next to E-Learning tools, online platforms are a way to get information out there. In this online course, it was good to learn how to work with such a page, creating a serious content next to some blog exercises. But not just the colleagues from the course are using Wikibooks, everybody else is too. So it is putting together some people who are interested in maybe online learning via Wikibooks or teaching. It creates some kind of cloud around its website, the people who edit pages and the people who read them. While using Wikibooks we are barely visible, because we just have to create a user name. That’s all. Not like social media, where we have to give more private information to get an account. There is some more privacy while editing a page, people just see your user name and nothing more. Everyone can decide how much information he or she wants to post on their personal page, so I consider it more controlled while doing so. One additional point of how Wikibooks works is that people can add you in comments, just with your user name. So they can start a discussion with you where you can get involved. It might be less stressful just to add people in a comment or sentence and they get the notice then, so this person can react on your post. And other people can see your user name, too. During this course work, we used this way a lot, because we can still make our edit and just refer to another person and go on with the rest of our thoughts without changing much.

INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK: DISCUSSION, ENGAGEMENT, CONTRIBS

 * Engagement on discussion pages of this standard attain the following grade descriptor for contribs. Whereas not all of the elements here will be directly relevant to your particular response to the brief, this will give you a clearer idea of how the grade you have been given relates to the standards and quality expected of work at this level:
 * Clear Fail. Assignment responses receiving marks below 30% tend to not contain any merit or relevance to the module. Contributions are one-liners, sometimes made up of text-speak, if there are any contributions at all. Often they are indicative of failure to comment on other students’ ideas, and therefore do not engage with the crucial peer-review element. Entries of this grade may have been subject to admin warnings or take-down notices for copyright infringement, or the user has been blocked for vandalism or other contraventions of wiki T&C. The wiki markup formatting will be more or less non-existent.

Students should be engaging at least once a day, for the duration of the project. The following points illustrate how this engagement is evaluated.


 * None.

Evidence from contribs to both editing and discussion of content (i.e. volume and breadth of editorial activity as evidenced through ‘contribs’). These are primarily considered for quality rather than quantity, but as a broad guideline: o	Each item on a contribs list that are 3000+ characters are deemed “considerable” o	Each item on a contribs list that are 2000+ characters are deemed “significant” o	Each item on a contribs list that are 1000+ characters are deemed “substantial” o	Items on a contribs list that are <1000 characters are important, and are considered in the round when evaluating contribs as a whole because of their aggregate value


 * None.

•	Engagement with and learning from the community on Discussion Pages o	Evidence of peer-assisted learning and collaboration o	Evidence of reading, sharing, and application of research to the essay o	Evidence of peer-review of others’ work


 * None.

•	Reflexive, creative and well-managed use of Discussion Pages o	Clear delegation of tasks o	Clearly labelled sections and subsections o	Contributions are all signed


 * None.

•	Civility. Your conduct is a key component of any collaboration, especially in the context of an online knowledge-building community. Please respect others, as well as observe the rules for civility on wiki projects. All contribs are moderated.


 * None.

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 12:02, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback on Wiki Exercise Portfolio
Posts and comments on other people’s work, of this standard, roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor. Depending on where your actual mark is in relation to the making criteria as outlined in the relevant documentation, it should give you an idea of strengths and weaknesses within the achieved grade band overall.

Satisfactory. Among other things, satisfactory entries may try to relate an idea from the module to an original example, but might not be very convincing. They may waste space on synopsis or description, rather than making a point. They may have spelling or grammatical errors and typos. They might not demonstrate more than a single quick pass at the assignment, informed only by lecture and/or cursory reading. They may suggest reading but not thinking (or indeed the reverse). The wiki markup formatting will need some work.


 * This work is at the lower end of this grade band, so there’s clearly room for improvement here. I think in order to engage with the wiki exercises a bit more, it might be useful for you to look at the Grade Descriptors and (especially for this, perhaps, the Understanding) criteria in the module handbook to get more of an idea of how to hit those targets. Less instrumentally, and more in relation to this particular set of posts, you needed to engage much more with other users in discussion and peer-review. There are literally one or two instances of this, rather than a consistent engagement pattern, and this was the main problem overall.


 * Additionally, making more use of the wiki functionality and markup would have gone a long way to improving fluidity and functionality of posts. I suspect that, if you had become more familiar and proficient with the platform, that this would have made a considerable difference.


 * Re: responses to other people’s posts – these are fairly good, but too brief. Remember that the comments are "worth" as much as posts themselves. The reason for this is not only to help encourage discussion (a key element of wiki collaboration!) but also to get you to reflect upon your own work. This can all, of course be used to fuel ideas that might form part of your project work.

General:


 * Reading and research: Some evidence from annotated bibliography exercise.


 * Argument and analysis: Much more work needed in this respect.


 * Presentation:. See above, room for considerable improvement.

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 10:46, 9 May 2018 (UTC)