User talk:Americanlydia

Alright Americanlydia (discuss • contribs) 17:18, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

I believe I have a decently generous amount of online visibility, even if I don’t have say in a lot of it. By this I mean that my mom posts a lot of pictures of my brothers and I on her Facebook, a social media platform that I very rarely use. We’re the only thing she really posts about, so she loves taking pictures of us and sharing them with the world, always making sure to add the location where the picture was taken. If I had blocked someone on Facebook and didn’t want them knowing where I was, they would only have to check out my mom’s page to see what I’ve been up to.

Before I entered high school, I didn’t have a Facebook because my parents wouldn’t allow it, but this didn’t stop my friends from posting pictures that I sometimes happened to be in. They weren’t inappropriate at all and if they had asked me if they could post them, I wouldn’t have asked them not to, but they never told me. I had no clue how often they would post a picture that I was in, and I had no way of finding out since I didn’t have my own Facebook account. I feel like this should have bothered me more than it did, but I always told my best friend to keep an eye out to make sure that nobody was posting anything mean or inappropriate that involved me, and nobody ever did. Still, I have no idea how many pictures of 12-year-old me there are in the depths of Facebook.

Regarding the social media platforms that I’m in control over, I really only use Instagram and Snapchat. I have a finsta, a “fake insta”, that I post on considerably more than my main profile. This second account consists of pictures or videos that I don’t want to share with the followers on my main profile, which has a much more pleasing aesthetic; so for instance if I just wanted to post a picture of a cool frog that I saw one day, I would post it on my finsta as opposed to my main account. My finsta is private and my main account is not, and I update my finsta considerably more than my main, mostly because I don’t do too many things that I would deem worthy of my main page. Neither account has my address, full name, or school that I attend, but it wouldn’t be too hard to find out this information if you again looked at other posts that friends have tagged me in. I use Snapchat a considerable amount, but I’d say that I don’t post on my story a lot, something that all my followers on Snapchat can see. I snap my friends individually and privately, because there is a large amount of followers I have that I don’t know personally. These people I met at maybe parties or through another form of social media and never formed any real connection with, but they can still see my story when I choose to post on it. I don’t post anything inappropriate on my story, so I don’t mind that these people can see what I’m up to when I choose to let them. I’ll never add someone who I find untrustworthy or sketchy in the slightest. All in all, I have no idea how big my online footprint is. It’s probably a lot larger than I’d guess, but in this age something like that shouldn’t surprise me. Sometimes I think about how many times I’ve been in the background of somebody else’s picture, somebody who I don’t know and doesn’t know me. I’ve been to a lot of places, and a lot of touristy spots, so I can’t even imagine how many times I’ve walked behind someone taking a picture with their family and ended up in their scrapbook. Whether they noticed me or not, I’m in that picture forever, just like how my face will be in some form or another, on the internet forever. Americanlydia (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Reply to Wiki Exercise 1
I think you raise some really interesting points in your piece here. It is quite frightening to think about just how little - if any - control we really have over our visibility on social media. What I find really interesting about your piece is where you talk about your 'finsta' account. I think this links in really well with our theme of online disinhibition as it kind of gives me the impression that you use this platform to share stuff that you find interesting in a way you would never do in person or on your personal account which you feel is more associable with the 'offline' you. As for the issue you raise about the potential number of photos that are floating around somewhere on the internet without our knowledge, that is quite a scary thought. However I think what is more scary is the fact that we have become so accustomed to this way of life through the 'always-on' culture in which we live that avoiding this problem is very, very unlikely. Our incapability to keep track of our visible footprint and the fact that we so often neglect the issue of lack of consent when it comes to other people posting pictures of us means we are moving more and more towards a society where we will feel more of an existence in the virtual/online world than we do in the real one. Not only that, but we seem to feel we have a right to see someone's content and by that I mean, you find yourself frustrated when you try to look at someone's profile and it is set to private. In that sense, this culture has led to privacy being frowned upon. And this is again a very scary thought considering the immortality that the internet brings with our online profiles possessing the ability to long outlive us.

BeccaWithFreckles (discuss • contribs) 22:35, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback on Wiki Exercise #1
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 upper 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 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 post, 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 become more familiar and proficient with the platform, that this would have made a considerable difference.


 * Re: responses to other people’s posts – none undertaken. This would effectively halve your mark in assessed work.

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 12:07, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK: ENGAGEMENT ON DISCUSSION PAGES & CONTRIBS
Grade descriptors for Engagement: Engagement on discussion pages, and contribs of this standard attain the following grade descriptor. Whereas not all of the elements here will be directly relevant to your particular response to the brief, this descriptor 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:
 * Poor. Among other things, poor contributions may just offer links without real comment or apparent point. They may offer nothing more than poor-quality synopsis or description of material of dubious relevance. They may have serious clarity problems (including dead links, random graphics) which affect comprehension (or even worse, admin warnings or take-down notices for copyright infringement). They might be off-topic, private trivia, or of unclear relevance. The wiki markup formatting will be of a poor standard.

As instructed in the labs, and outlined in the assessment brief documentation, students should be engaging at least once a day, for the duration of the project. The following points illustrate how this engagement is evaluated.

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:
 * Each item on a contribs list that are 3000+ characters are deemed “considerable”
 * Each item on a contribs list that are 2000+ characters are deemed “significant”
 * Each item on a contribs list that are 1000+ characters are deemed “substantial”
 * 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

Overall:
 * the engagement in evidence here is very inconsistent and mainly concentrated in the final few days of the project. Being inactive for the majority of the project period meant that you weren’t left in a position to build significant or substantial contributions over time and therefore it is difficult to see where learning has occurred. However, whereas it is really a case of too little, too late to really get much out of the project, there is some effort made which sort of saved you – you *just about* managed to put together enough.

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

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

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.
 * Satisfactory

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 16:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)