User talk:SimonBrinkmann

I`m studying Journalism and Business Communication at Business and Information Technology School in, spending my semester abroad at at present. As I am most interested in media courses in my free time i`m working for the campus radio air3radio in Scotland and Bits.fm in Germany. I like producing a radio show because you can support others in having a nice day with current news, famous music and a good mood. My scottish radio show is every Wednesday from 11am to 1pm. Beside this engagement I'm working for the german internet radio Radio Hitwave trying to let young people from 12 to 20 make their own experiences in a professional radio station. It's our aim to make them conscious about how content in media is created and how failures can be prevented.

Wiki Exercise #1: Screen Time
My favorite movie is The Chorus. A movie directed by Christophe Barratier dealing with a group of children in the french boarding school Fond de L'Étang. Their teacher Mr Matthieu shows them characteristics like trust and hope which is very different to the headmaster Mr Rachan who is very self-serving, strict and bureaucratic. Matthieu has worked as teacher for music and starts a choir project with these kids which is very successful. A very sensitive movie which i can recommend. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 16:46, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Comment

 * Some good use of wiki markup here, but this is very brief and does not speak to the module's concerns. See comments below - you obviously have a lot of potential and something very good to offer in the group project.


 * A post of this standard roughly corresponds to the following grade descriptor:
 * Poor. Among other things, poor entries 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 may generally be of a poor standard.

RE: Comments on others’ work

 * These are on time and provide an excellent example of how the format can be used to exchange ideas and discuss work-in-progress - lots of content, scope and reference to module themes is made explicit. Remember that your comments on other people's work is weighted as heavily as your own post when it comes to grades - in this case your comments have definitely enabled you to pull your marks up a little. Keep this up and add more to your own posts in terms of content!! GregXenon01 (discuss • contribs) 15:41, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #2: Visibility and Online Footprint
Social media became very important in our networked society. Every person you meet uses in 90% of all cases at least one social network, even if it is WhatsApp. My usage of these services raised in the past years as I started traveling a lot and like to stay in contact with friends. Therefore I have five social networks which I use quite often - Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Spotify.

Every network brings its own benefits what might be the reason why so many different social media services are installed on my iPhone. I use Facebook for messaging with friends which I know from different situations in my life. It is much easier to stay in contact by saying the name instead of typing a pretty long telephone number. Another benefit is that you can see what they experience in their life and if you meet them again you can talk about that. That is how i use Facebook. I've set up very high privacy settings so that only friends can access my information. And for them i try to show what is most interesting in my life. It is comparable to a usual conversation in which you talk about your recent experiences. Instagram uses the same effect as it reduces messages on pictures and hashtags. I can control who can see my photos and on the other hand follow my friends in their activities. Sometimes I just see something beautiful at would like to share it with my friends. Spotify as a streaming service for music is not really a social network but you can see what friends are currently listening to and that creates a better music experience. You can listen to music which you wouldn't find without your friends.

Although all of these services are pretty useful to stay in contact with friends, it is very important to go outside and meet them because a nice photo of a person can never replace a personal meeting. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 12:41, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #3: Information overload!
Writing an essay has become pretty easy in our days because of information about nearly every topic is out there in the web free of charge in most cases. You can either find out almost every theory from Marshall McLuhan to the developer of the Harmonica, Friedrich Buschmann. That mass of information can be a threat in filtering out what is useful or even wrong. To do that i handle information from the internet very carefully and try to prove everything using a second source. That principle makes it much easier to use information but anyway websites can be changed very simply and you never know if the information you got will still be there in a year. In social networks the share in useful information is even smaller as people don't just share their private life but 'funny content' which triggers and information overload. Facebook for example offers the possibility to block content you don't want to see. If my friends post 'cat-content' or other pictures which are just used to entertain, i just skip this post as my usage of social networks has changed from watching timelines to messaging with friends anyway. Looking on Google it is a big problem because you get sorted information on which you have no influence. In that case it is a real threat to miss information so the only thing you can do is click on random pages in you Google search.

In my opinion the mass of information in the internet can be pretty useful in case you handle it carefully and prove everything at least a second time. I try to block unnecessary information if possible and otherwise I try to build an overview on useful information. How do you handle information overload especially in case of a Google search? SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 14:50, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Comments
It quite interesting what you say about Google, especially when you say: “Looking on Google it is a big problem because you get sorted information on which you have no influence.” but I think it is quite important to say and mention that most of the time website like Google or YouTube for example give you the information that you want; they have special algorithms to analyze your preference and give you back when you are searching what they think it's better for you; in other words you find what you want to find, the results of your pages are kind of made by you; or rather form your “internet-self”. To answer your question and don't think you have to handle the overload of of information on Google search but instead you should adapt your way of research based on the medium that you are using that can be something analogical like books, or something digital like internet and Google for example.Wecandobetter (discuss • contribs) 01:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Good that you made that clearer, thank you! These algorithms can be very useful especially looking on information we need for our everyday life. But you although have to see that nobody knows how Googles search engine really works. So it can always be possible that important information is left behind. On the other hand I agree that Google should only be a way to find sources and build a wider range of information. It should never replace a research especially when looking on books. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 12:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello Simon, it is very interesting that you covered the aspect of the search engine google. I kind of did that too. Since you were wondering about how you can control your search results better, look up my post. I would recommend you to use ,,Google scholar´´ in case you´re researching scientific information. Google scholar provides scientific work, but also essays and relevant literature for the aspects you are searching. Since your argument is, that you do not have real control about the information you get, when searching with google, I was wondering what you think about the argument of McLuhan, that media technologies have the power to transform culture and society and also our experience of the world? Do you think that through the internet our experience of the world has changed? And if so, that things like google or facebook, where you can´t control the kind of information you get, can change the culture and the society, through giving them only certain information first? --Handkel (discuss • contribs) 10:22, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that interesting comment! I agree with you that Google Scholar can be very useful, especially looking on quotes and access to free literature without going to the library. But compared to a library you still need to know what you are looking for or you won't find it. In a library you still have categories in which you can often easily find the right book. So like you said, it can only be an addition to a research we have to do anyway. I liked the idea you brought in that this sorting of information is changing the culture and society, according to McLuhan. I think that this could happen pretty easy. The people of an internet company can decide which information we get and what will be let out. Look on the events in Cologne some month ago when women were attacked by criminals. Because these information were so omnipresent in social media channels and the news, the society was very active on this topic and started to protest against refugees instead of waiting for the police to tell what happened. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 12:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi SimonBrinkmann. I agree with what you have written there is now so much information available out there to us it can make it impossible to select which information is relevant and what isn’t. What you also have to be careful of when writing essays, as a student is that the information you are reading is not bias from the authors perspective, it has been officially published and that there is a clear date of publication. Without this information, there is no evidence to support that the information is accurate, which is essential in a University essay.

I think it is key that you have highlighted that there is pretty much information available out there on the World Wide Web discussing pretty much everything! This is really useful as like you say we cab access information quickly at our fingertips, more often than not for free like you have stated. Search engines have been created in the form of Google, Firefox and Aol, in order for us to be able to look up particular information. When you click on either of these forms, you are normally faced with a Search box, where you type in a key topic or words about what information you are trying to obtain. This helps to cut down the amount of information appearing on our screens, however it can still appear to have thousands and thousands of results popping up, relating to what you searched. Therefore despite this technology that you are able to look up particular things, you are still faced with masses amounts of information.

You are right to use a second source when researching an essay because you have stated that information can be changed easily on the internet- look at our Wikipedia pages! Anyone could go on at any time and change information we have written, even if it is accurate.

Normally when I write an essay, I begin by typing key parts of the essay questions into Google to obtain a basic understanding of the topic. I will write down my key findings from the Internet, then once I have this information I go to the library and look it up in academic published books, journals and articles. This helps me to match up my information, and helps me to recognize what is fact and what is fiction.

The amount of information on the Internet can be overwhelming and time consuming to sieve through, however what I normally do is taking each section of an essay question, break it down and Google only parts at a time. That way I can focus on particular sections, to try to limit the amount of information that is highlighted to me.

So I feel that the Internet is a good starting point to get basic ideas when beginning an essay, however I do not feel the information as be solely relied upon. KZillwood02 (discuss • contribs) 10:42, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I really enjoyed reading you comment as you bring in that very important point which extends my post: always comparing internet knowledge with something that is printed. We should use Google and all the other service to find ideas for topics to work on and that is pretty easy to do. If we use it like that we don't really have a problem with too much information. We will get some summaries and find key authors. On that basis we can start a research. As you said in this way we can easily find out if information is correct. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 12:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Simon, Very interesting to see how you look for two sources saying the same thing instead of one due to the fact that information online nowadays can be very untrustworthy. also what your saying about social networks is very true but i believe that depending on your age will depend how you use it. as it seems to me that younger people are using it more to post videos and chat in private messengers available and the older users are using it in its more traditional way. and when it comes to google and me i tend to trust more traditional media online sources like the guardian due to the fact i know if the information was incorrect they would do a retraction unlike other online news sites such as buzzfeed. Lubo95 (discuss • contribs) 11:01, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I really agree with what you say. Social media usage always depends on the people and especially the age of the people that use it. Maybe that makes it so difficult to filter out which information is important. If producers and consumers have a different way of using a network, it might come to an information overload which we sometimes have on Facebook. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 12:27, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Wiki Exercise #4: Wikibook Project Reflective Account
The Wikibook Project was very useful to get first experiences in working with the platform and on the other hand a great success in creating and gather knowledge about the important topic ‚An Internet of Everything?‘ which of course has to be discussed looking on changes in our society caused by the Internet. It was a good idea to build groups in the first instance to have a platform for discussions on that specific topic and get the opportunity to collect possible sources and quotes which might become important. On the other hand it was easy to talk to group members to ask for support and proof-readings. Nevertheless it was difficult to coordinate which part of the Wikibooks has to be written by which member of the group so it was good to determine a group-leader who can be contacted for the distribution of topics and leads discussions. The idea of crowd sourcing is the idea of bringing together collective intelligence and although the work of many people to create a huge Wikibooks full of information concerning the influences the Internet has on our society. The italian theorist Tiziana Terranova describes that kind of work as „far from being an unreal empty space, the Internet is animated by cultural and technical labor through and through, a continuous production of value that is completely immanent in the flows of the network society“ (2000, 33-34). This would mean that the creating of content, especially looking on crowd sourcing, is an ongoing process which in the end builds the Internet and can never be finished as there are always changes. This statement can be seen critical as not every website on the internet can be edited and not everybody has access to every part of the internet. But looking on open-source projects like Wikipedia it fits very well to our kind of working. During the Wikibooks Project everybody worked on their own articles and posts but on the other hand although corrected mistakes of other members or even enhanced their work with new information. The division of our weekly tasks in three topics I evaluate as very useful as there was a good possibility to find a starting point and talk about personal topics at first. Then we had the task to bring these topics from our lectures in connection to our personal opinion. I although liked the idea to write at least two comments on other user discussion pages what made it more interesting to write these posts knowing that people will read it and you will get a response by some. It took some time until everybody knew how the project works but in the end it was very successful. We produced a huge mass of information in our Wikibooks Project and now have a “book“ which can be used in future projects concerning that topic. SimonBrinkmann (discuss • contribs) 15:18, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Comments
Hey there SimonBrinkmann. Very interesting, you actually hit upon something that didn't enter my mind when attempting to analyse what was good with this Wikibooks project: we actually now have a fully functional book that will be an educational tool for those that follow on from us. I reflected more on specific parts of the collaboration process, which i found to be invaluable and educational in itself. I do agree with you concerning the start of the project, and how it was difficult to get to grips with who people were or what they were going to be working on etc. Good reflection on your part, I enjoyed dissecting your thoughts, so good work. TheDoctor1888 (discuss • contribs) 11:00, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi SimonBrinkmann good article i agree with you in regards to the difficulties in knowing what parts to do in the book. i also enjoy how detailed this is with the topics which have been covered in the course (i.e. crowdsourcing) i also like Tiziana Terranova's quote. i also had myself thought about the mass information we have created together and it's online for people to use Lubo95 (discuss • contribs) 09:47, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Hi Simon, I agree with you with regards to how it was a good idea to have small groups of 4 or 5 to help lay a foundation of ideas. Moreover, the point you raised about how difficult it was to orginise oneself and to do this whilst not trying to tread on anyone's section is perfectly valid. I thought your qoat was quite fitting to the point you were trying to make, it really added to your explanation.

Also, I thought it was good to see the theories, that we have studied over the past twelve weeks, in action. As you have stated, I think the wiki - tasks that were also set helped the project. They also made interacting with each other essential, showing theories in action.

I agree with you conclusion that overall the project was successful. I think it's objectives were met. Jackgpounder (discuss • contribs) 10:57, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

Marker’s Feedback on Wikibook Project Work
You seem to be the main contributor to the mobile privatization section of the chapter. This is a significant contribution to the chapter page, is well written and includes lots of enriched content (interwiki and external links, formatting etc.). Your work is also well researched, and includes citations from a number of very useful, relevant scholars. If you had engaged a little more, and for a longer period, the quantity of work would have been significantly more than in evidence here – you do not therefore quite reach your potential.

Wiki Exercises


 * 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.

Content (weighted 20%)

 * Your contribution to the book page gives a good brief overview of the subject under discussion in your chosen themed chapter. There is a good range of concepts associated with your subject, and the effort to deliver critical definitions, drawing from relevant literature and scholarship, and your own critical voice in the building of a robust argument is very much in evidence. The primary and secondary sources you found about the chapter’s themes cover a good range and depth of subject matter.

Understanding (weighted 30%)

 * Reading and research:
 * evidence of critical engagement with set materials, although some ideas and procedures more securely grasped than others
 * evidence of independent reading of somewhat circumscribed range of appropriate academic and peer-reviewed material
 * Argument and analysis:
 * well-articulated and well-supported argument featuring variable depth of understanding
 * satisfactory level of evidence of critical thinking (through taking a position in relation to key ideas from the module, and supporting this position in discussion);
 * satisfactory level of evidence of relational thinking (through making connections between key ideas from the module and wider literature, and supporting these connections in discussion);
 * evidence of variable independent critical ability

Engagement (weighted 50%)

 * Evidence from contributions to both editing and discussion of content to a variable standard (i.e. volume and breadth of activity as evidenced through contribs)
 * Satisfactory engagement with and learning from other Wikipedians about the task of writing/editing content for a Wikibook
 * Reflexive, creative and fairly well-managed use of discussion pages using deployment of somewhat limited judgement relating to key issues, concepts or procedures

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