Week Two: Visual Library and Quick Concepts

By going through the process of creating brainstorms, word lists and then leading onto an image library, it set me up well to start creating poster concepts. I found it easy to come up with various different poster ideas that were on specific areas of social media such as communication, identity and cyber bullying. Also by exploring both negative and positive sides of social media I was able to strengthen my argument against social media, that social media is anti-social.

When looking into making the familiar unfamiliar I found that I was doing this process to some extent already. However, since I was sick on the day we went over it in class I had to catch up with what we were doing/had to do for homework through stream and also a fellow class member. It would have been nice to participate in the class exercises but I feel I understand what is needed of me for this week.

Week One: Choosing a Topic and Initial Research

SOCIAL MEDIA IS ANTI-SOCIAL

To begin with, when I saw this statement I automatically disagreed with it as I think social media, when used to the best of its ability, can open up so many opportunities due to its connectivity it has around the globe. However, after some research into statistics and both the pros and cons of social media I began to lean more toward the anti-social side of the argument. Why I changed my mind was mainly due to the horrific on goings with cyber bullying that I never really deeply thought about up until now. I don't understand how people feel that it's ok to say such nasty and horrible things to a person over the internet that they would never dream of saying to someones face. Why does social media create the sense of disconnection between users and allow them to dehumanise each other?