Bria Gaines

Prior to reading this articles I had no idea what crowdsourcing meant. Crowdsourcing is “the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by enlisting the services of a large number of people, either paid or unpaid.” I definitely do think that crowdsourcing is changing the way that companies go about approaching …

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For my activity I split the class into two groups. I had one group come up with their own blog name and post. While I handed out two news stories to the next group. One was a blog post and the other was a real news story. They had to determine which one was the …

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I think social media does have an effect on political campaigns. I don’t think the effect is always negative. For example in the article titled “The Role Played By Social Media In Political Participation and Electoral Campaigns.” They mention that “personal communication via social media brings politicians and parties closer to their potential voters.” Which …

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Before reading these articles I actually did think blogging could replace real news. I thought that because in this day in age a lot of people turn to social media for information before actually turning on the news or searching a real news site such as Pix11 or News 12. I know that when somebody …

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These articles were about social media and how they may affect us. For example the article titled “ The Web Means the End of Forgetting” talks about how when you put stuff on the web it never really goes away. For example, in the article a 25 year old teacher in training lost her opportunity …

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