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HAPPY TO BE HERE IN WIKIBOOKS I can't seem to figure out how to upload the wiki commons for images down below.

Wiki Exercise #2: To what extent are my online and offline identities aligned?
The line, “Be yourself; everyone else is taken” is a saying many people should look at, especially in a society we live in today. Social media is getting more and more rapid and by the time you know it, real life interactions just won’t exist anymore. Why is it that everybody feels that constant urge to pull out their cellphone all the time? Being a twenty-year-old male with no social media has brought me a better life where I actually exhibit human experience and feelings that aren’t through a cellphone or social media account. Social media today has gotten to the point where “likes” give people a ranking in popularity and who they are in their own web sphere amongst others. From picture editing to fake comments, certain individuals value how they act or appear on social media more than they do in real life. It’s the sad truth that needs to be addressed for how non genuine some people can be through their appearance online as somebody there are not

Image from Wiki Commons. Displays different social media sites in pill form to show how addicted we are to them.

Everybody has their own style on social media, you can always see which guys or girls make more of an effort to appear better looking or stronger. It is funny to laugh at because you understand that the person cares so much about their appearance so they can get more attention or likes. “Our profiles reflect how we want to be perceived, rather than showing an honest picture of who we really are” (9). I feel those who go the extra mile in their pictures whether if its professionally done or they look like somebody they’re not, these people have the most insecurity problems. You may also have that really shy kid who never talks to anyone but the minute he is home on his computer or cellphone; the kid is transformed into a more outgoing guy through his social media account. Social media has created a second virtual world where humans can escape their lives and turn themselves into anybody they want. The shy kid can be more outgoing through a screen, or the unattractive girl with the big nose and acne can cover that all up through editing a nice picture. Multiple identities are being formed online that make them someone they are not. If more people could understand the negatives that Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat bring I think less people would interact with the site.

Image from Wiki Commons. A person taking a “selfie” of herself. This lady will most likely be uploading that picture on some social media account.

Jacob Amendie from, “Impact of Social Media on Society,” mentions how people who try to capture a perfect online world of good looking images and publicity are found to be more depressed. Much stress is brought in because users want to appear better and better through time. The social anxiety of stress is associated with trying to project a perfect self at all times. “The constant stress from constantly trying to project an image of perfection, a perfect career, perfect marriage, etc. leads to the constant release of the stress hormone cortisol, and just like social media usage, leads to depression anxiety (8).” With this also comes how certain people view others. Our accounts share amazing moments of our life with hundreds of people who see it daily. Some people even upload videos like this all the time so it looks like they are always out having a blast with people. But the need to take out your phone, tape it, and upload to social media doesn’t mean anything. The person just wants to show off to everyone saying, “I’m having a great time and you’re not having as much of a blast as me.” This could be why we are in a selfish society, we showoff. In “How False Performance of Identity on Instagram Influence Social Comparisons” by Isabel Morton, she goes through false representation and the impact on others online. Individuals on social media have the power to “self-monitor” their own traits and interest whether if its genuine or not. “While some Instagram users may present their identity candidly and confidently, many others use online identity as an opportunity to shape themselves as more favorable to others” (3). It is all about our representation of identity on social media that gets others attention. Morton states that people use self-presentation tactics so they can “make a desired impression on a particular audience.” This role of a new identity allows for a form of acceptance to network and form communities with other online users. People are capable of fitting in better with a better reputation than those who don’t. “Upholding and developing one’s identity or reputation is actually essential to the formation of communities. In modern society, people create and update online profiles that conform to society’s standards of self-presentation and social expectation” (6). Those who carefully monitor their account are the ones who will receive more positive outcomes for their social media page. People want to “follow” others who have online status similar to them. So when we say how much we care about our social media account, we really do. You can judge a person via Instagram without looking at any photos, all you need to see is the “follower ratio” and can automatically assume if they are popular or not. It’s the sad truth that most of us understand but do nothing about it. Our identity of who we are online is something most of us value and maybe one day we can all destroy the social media empire and live life the way we are supposed to. MrMojoDZ (discuss • contribs) 13:51, 19 March 2019 (UTC)MrMojoDZ

I would also like to add that I submitted this by the deadline but then realised my format was incorrect so I made the changes. That is why the time stamp is later. I am now very comfortable with Wikibooks. I worked a lot on formatting today. MrMojoDZ (discuss • contribs) 16:36, 19 March 2019 (UTC)MrMojoDZ Works Cited Morton, Isabel. “How False Performance of Identity on Instagram Influence Social Comparisons.” Debating Communities and Networks IX, networkconference.netstudies.org/2018Bentley/2018/05/07/how-false-performance-of-identity-on-instagram-influence-social-comparisons/. Amendie, Jacob. “Impact of Social Media on Society.” https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=engl_176

Wiki Exercise #3: Annotated Bibliography Exercise (Part B)
Melissa G. Hunt, Rachel Marx, Courtney Lipson, Jordyn Young. 2018. No More FOMO: Limiting Social Media Decreases Loneliness and Depression. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2018; 751 DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2018.37.10.751

The University of Pennsylvania conducted a study on Social Medias impact of individual’s well-being. They specifically looked at Instagram Facebook, and Snapchat. The contributors gathered their research by giving a survey on general mood from 143 participants at the university. All these individuals engage with at least one of these social media outlets. Each student had to screenshot their device so they could keep track with their overall usage on their phone and social media. After 3 weeks the authors found an impact with how social media can create fear of missing out, anxiety, depression, and/or loneliness. This source is useful in my research for my argument of the positives of not having social media. If people could look at these statistics on how Social media can trigger mental illnesses, less may engage with them like me. To get everyone to go cold turkey on all social media is extremely difficult, but limiting our time on these sites is a better option. This overall research statistically proves social media has the potential of creating an array of mental illnesses. I can incorporate these negatives to get people to quit online social media. MrMojoDZ (discuss • contribs) 16:15, 19 March 2019 (UTC)MrMojoDZ

Wiki Exercise #1: Online Visibility and Footprint
As an individual who has no social media, not counting LinkedIn, I find myself at ease with my privacy only shared with people I talk to such as friends and family members. Like others who do interact with social media, they find themselves exposing their personal information to others whom they may or may not know. This is one of the reasons why I stay offline because why do I need to constantly share my information through pictures and statuses with people I may not know? I would consider LinkedIn a social media outlet to an extent for its strictly business connection and secure account. I feel that people sometimes forget how much of their personal life is shared online. This being an issue especially with younger teenagers who are just starting Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. We are often so caught up with sharing pictures and moments that we may upload something that we didn’t put much thought into and boom its online for the world to see. Though individuals can choose to create a private account, I still feel like once its online it can slip through the cracks on other places to be reached. I think I can contribute to online privacy as well as mental health to my argument on why having social media is better not to have for an individual’s well-being. MrMojoDZ (discuss • contribs) 16:34, 19 March 2019 (UTC)MrMojoDZ

Wiki Exercise #4: Collaborative Essay Critical Evaluation – What ARE Wikis?
Wikibooks allow for a communal webpage where separate users can share and upload their own research. A Wikibook preserves much content for individuals to manage the total work flow. They work the best when a group is present so that each member can execute their own individual topic. For Digital Media and Culture, our instructor put us in pods and assigned a topic for us to conducted research on. My group consisted of twelve people with the subject being impression management. Since it’s a broad term with a lot to cover, our team broke it up into different sections where each student was responsible for covering his or her own branch of impression management. We used Wikibooks to communicate about our individual sections of impression management as well as have access to formulate the entire project on the same page. It’s almost similar to a social media page by how information can be distributed to a wide range of people to view. Communication is the most important aspect when it comes to a group project. Since my group had twelve people, not everyone could meet up at the same times so all we needed to do was chat via Wikibooks. This made things a lot less complicated for my group as a whole. If questions or concerns were raised, anyone in the group could hop in and help that person. For example, I was struggling on how to reference sources properly in the Wikibooks. So I simply stated my inquiry on the discussion page and it was answered within minutes. A community is then formed amongst classmates where we collaborate together to meet our goal on successfully completing the project together. I know some individuals felt uncomfortable uploading their own work for all eleven others to see but once they realized everyone was doing it, they felt better about it. All group members worked effectively by communicating and working together. All which is why Wikibooks is a feasible cite to use for a group and classmates. MrMojoDZ (discuss • contribs) 17:11, 3 April 2019 (UTC)MrMojoDZ

LeBar, Zach (3 April 2017). "What Are Wikis, and Why Should You Use Them?".

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:
 * Contributions of this standard do not address the assignment requirements. They offer little to no engagement with the concerns of the module. They are poorly written. Entries of this grade may have been subject to admin warnings or take-down notices for copyright infringement. The wiki markup formatting will be more or less non-existent.

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:
 * Simply a case of far too few interactions with the discussion pages, and of a size not really deemed “significant” – therefore very little evidence to form a positive judgement here.

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

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 15:34, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Instructor Feedback on Wiki Exercise Portfolio
Posts and comments on other people’s work, of this standard, roughly correspond 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:


 * Good. Among other things, good entries will make a clear point in a clear way. They will relate concepts to original examples in a straightforward fashion. They will make effective use of the possibilities of the form (including links, as well as perhaps copyright-free videos and images, linked to from Wiki Commons). They may also demonstrate a broader understanding of the module's themes and concerns, and are likely to show evidence of reading and thinking about the subject material. The wiki markup formatting will be very clear.


 * This work is at the lower end of this grade band, so there’s some 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. One thing that you needed perhaps to pay heed to was detail – both in terms of wiki formatting (a little haphazard in places) and assessment brief (both elements of Ex4 came in a little short). Otherwise, some good work here.


 * Re: responses to other people’s posts – these are fairly good, if a little 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: evidence of critical engagement with set materials; evidence of independent reading of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material – all good generally.


 * Argument and analysis: well-articulated and well-supported argument; evidence of critical thinking (through taking a position in relation to key ideas from the module, and supporting this position); evidence of relational thinking (through making connections between key ideas from the module and wider literature, and supporting these connections); evidence of independent critical ability – all good.


 * Presentation: good use of wiki markup and organisational skills.

GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 16:33, 1 May 2019 (UTC)