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.
Communications and The Media 