The Comments Round 2

I approached this round of commenting similar to the last. I followed the same structure of commenting, starting with what I thought was good, followed by suggestions and recommendations that I thought would make their DA’s better and finishing off with links to resources that could help them. Responding to feedback from the last round of commenting, I included links to academic sources in all my comments as well as popular media and news to assist them in further enhancing their research.

Lizzie’s DA looks at past and current celebrity conspiracy theories and then discussing the relevance of these conspiracies in the future. I pointed Lizzie to Subreddits and Reddit in general as a platform to use to generate public feedback, get topic ideas and share her content to her specific audience. Because the podcasts focus on a different topic each week I linked her to popular media sources and Reddit posts with ideas for future podcast episodes because I wasn’t really sure what other information I could link to help her. After I learned what her next podcast topic was I found an academic source that might help with her with information. I found Lizzie’s DA really easy to engage in because the topic is so interesting and the content is relevant and entertaining.

Nicola’s DA uses an Instagram account to look at social robots and how digital influencers can eventually take over social media from other influencers. This was a subject I didn’t know much about so I was interested in her approach to the topic and her method. Nicola had mentioned doing blog posts on her background research so I linked her to popular media sources and an academic journal on her topic to assist her in blog posts. As I was unfamiliar with this topic, I thought about ethical implications of bots as influencers and suggested this could be a topic she could discuss in a future blog post, also linking information on this topic to her.

Naomi’s DA discusses the use of insects as a form of food in the long term future. She is presenting her information in a video that will incorporate her previous podcasts and a survey. I was very impressed with the amount of research that Naomi had done for her DA and it seemed that she had finished with secondary research. I ended up linking her to popular media sources that are no more than a few weeks old so if she chooses to add more to her research she has current sources and information. Naomi struggled with getting public feedback so I looked into other platforms that she could use to generate feedback and ended up linking her to Anchor.fm, a platform that I learnt about from another DA.

In BCM, commenting on work by other students has always been part of subjects, however this is the first time I’ve had to engage with other digital artefacts and give feedback that I think will help. I tried to include a mix of sources and recommendations for the actual artefact in order to cover a range of aspects of the artefact. Commenting is a skill that I have been able to develop and improve throughout the 2 rounds of commenting. Through this commenting I have been able to consider how I develop and present my own DA and some of my recommendations for others, I have incorporated into my own. This experience has helped me understand the importance of good feedback and I’ll implement this skill in future subjects.

An Update on the Future of Space Travel

The future of space travel is a website that I have started for my BCM325 digital artefact. Taking feedback from Twitter, Reddit and the comments on my pitch, I have developed a website that includes posts on Space travel depicted in movies and my thoughts on common questions about space travel in the future. Coming soon will be podcasts and other blog type posts with more content from fantasy media such as movies and video games and current media on new developments and what this means for space travel in the future.

Always welcoming feedback so feel free to have a look and let me know what you would like to see! https://curiousstudent.wixsite.com/spacetravel 

The Comments…

Being able to view and engage with other student’s Digital Artefact pitches really helped me consider my own. Some of the recommendations that I gave others I realised would actually help me a lot with my own DA.

Even though I wasn’t really too keen on commenting, I tried to approach it in a positive way because the whole point was to engage and assist other people and I wanted to give the best feedback I possibly could. I aimed to give some positive feedback about what I thought was good, followed by a recommendation and then some sources that could help them. I mainly stuck to this but not completely. I think my main issue with commenting on other peoples content is that I don’t want them to take offence to anything I say and I don’t want to be overstepping in what I say, especially when giving recommendations. I tried to be really positive and I also found that I kept reiterating that what I said were just suggestions that definitely didn’t need to be followed.

Erin’s DA looks at dream recording as a way to assist with mental health patients. The idea is to use short video essays to explain the technology and how it can be developed to assist psychologists  in treating mental health patients.

My main concern with commenting was that I wasn’t going to be able to engage in the content because I wasn’t interested in it or because I genuinely wouldn’t know what was going on but it was actually very easy to engage with Erin’s pitch because she was very straight forward with her idea and its an interesting take on this topic. My go to recommendation in all three comments was to use Reddit which is surprising because I hardly ever use reddit but I found that for their DA’s it would be a good platform to share content and start conversation which could also result in a feedback cycle. In my research on dream recording I found that there was a fair bit on the ethical issues surrounding privacy with the technology so I thought it would be a good topic for Erin to touch on and I linked her to a website that I hope is helpful for her.

A follow on from a previous DA, Nothando looks at migration, a relevant topic in the present and the future. She plans on conducting interviews with first and second generation migrants to Australia regarding their experience and adaptions into our culture.

I thought it was awesome that she is continuing a previous DA and it is a relevant topic both in the present and definitely in the future. I suggested Nothando look at how migration might change in the future and incorporate this question into her interviews. I was concerned with this comment because I thought that this might be overstepping so I ended up being overly nice about how I said it and reiterated that it was just a suggestion. In researching, I found that there are concerns with overpopulation as a result of migration so I linked a website into my comment that she could have a look at if she chooses to explore the future of migration.

Emily’s DA considers all things future, where her podcasts will have a specific topic regarding future technologies and theories that will be discussed based on current research and opinions and speculation from the view of herself and her guest speakers.

I kind of struggled to engage in this pitch because the idea was so broad. I didn’t really know what research to do that could help her with content which I regret not doing because I think that extra research would have helped her. Once again I looked at Reddit as a platform because I think it could help her find her specific audience for each topic which I think was the most effective part of this comment. I also suggested she have a common theme which I was concerned about saying because, again, I didn’t want to overstep. I wish I would have looked for similar content as examples for her.

Overall, I think I mostly engaged well in the pitches, however I aim to do more research and link more sources in the next round of commenting to further enhance my ideas and assist them more in their projects.