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.

#LiveTweeting

Source: https://www.ticketbooth.com.au/ticketing/blog/promote-your-event-by-live-tweeting/

To be honest, Twitter has never really been a platform that I used outside of uni just because I am not really interested in sharing my thoughts publicly, so I was kind of nervous. Not only had I never live tweeted before, I also hadn’t used Twitter in over a year so I was also out of practice of tweeting in general.

My goal was to do a mixture of facts that I had found prior to the screening and then observations that I made but this didn’t always happen. This was mainly because if I wasn’t interested I didn’t follow the film enough to make decent observations and then relied mostly on facts.

I got a little bored watching Metropolis so most of my tweets were facts from wikipedia and other websites. I mainly tried to look for facts about the movie that I could tweet because I thought those tweets would get the most response but I was wrong. I found that my most prominent and successful tweets were about how confused I was.

https://twitter.com/nc962_uow/status/1103413192959516673

From seeing other peoples tweets I learnt that memes gained a lot of response so I tried to incorporate them into my tweets.

Week two was a pretty bad week. I didn’t get as much response as I would have liked. I think it was to do with the fact that besides liking and retweeting other peoples tweets, I didn’t really engage in any threads or make any comments. I was so overwhelmed by how much insight other people had on the movie that I didn’t know what to comment and was a bit scared that I would say something wrong or stupid.

I relied on facts that I found on the internet about 2001: A Space Odyssey for tweets and got some likes but not as many as some of my tweets from week one. This tweet got a response which was awesome, probably my best tweet from week two.

The screening of Westworld was a dud week for me in tweeting because I was honestly so into the movie that I kept forgetting to tweet about it so I relied on facts that I had looked up before just so I was tweeting and my interactions were mostly just liking.

By week four I started interacting more and because of this I got more interaction on my tweets. Because I was paying attention more to the films I actually had some insights and thoughts to tweet about and was able to engage with other peoples tweets as well.

I was honestly proud of the comment on the thread below because it was probably the first time that I actually had something to say in response to someone else’s thought. It didn’t get a response that maybe would have started a conversation but it got a few likes.

I was very proud of this tweet from Bladerunner because it was the first time that I actually had a question to ask in regards to the themes of the film and I got a few retweets and likes but I was hoping for some comments that would start a conversation. I think the lack of engagement was due to timing and that I tweeted this towards the end of the movie when the interactions and tweets were slowing down.

I was disappointed that the two tweets below didn’t get a lot of response because I was actually proud that I had these insights about the film. I was looking for conversation when I posted them and I didn’t get that. I’m thinking it was to do with the fact that I had just started engaging in threads so others weren’t really engaging in mine yet but hopefully if I engage more then i’ll get more response in the future.

Week six was pretty average for tweeting, but it was the first week that I didn’t have to rely on facts from the internet for content which I think shows progress in my live tweeting abilities.

I also participated in a thread that ended up including four other people and gained a lot of engagement from a lot of people through likes and retweets.

Thread: https://twitter.com/ProtagonistPink/status/1116123093850656768

Overall, I think that there was definitely a growth in my live tweeting abilities and my interactions are slowly getting better. I need to work on commenting more and engaging with others and hopefully this will result in more engagement in my posts. I think I will research more about the film before the screening to find themes that I can talk about. I also want to use more media such as GIFS and memes to make my content more interesting because from previous weeks I think this gains more engagement.