How companies or organizations and individuals use digital or social media to effectively communicate ideas, information, arguments, and messages to achieve a specific goal. How digital or social media has transformed the communication of an idea, information, and arguments in society.

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How companies or organizations and individuals use digital or social media to effectively communicate ideas, information, arguments, and messages to achieve a specific goal. How digital or social media has transformed the communication of an idea, information, and arguments in society.

  1. Access, analyze, interpret, and evaluate digital media to foster learning and to guide decision-making.
  2. Make responsible choices in the creation and consumption of digital media based on awareness of global, social, ethical, and legal contexts.

Project Description
In this project, you will select a topic discussed in class from the list provided below, conduct additional research on the topic, and share this information in a research paper.
Project 3 consists of:

  1. Project Requirements (topics and content to cover)
  2. Paper Requirements (content organization)
  3. Submission Requirements (how to submit your assignment)
  4. APA Resources (how to cite and select sources)
  5. Due Date Information and Late Policy

Project Requirements
Select one of the 12 research topics below and complete ALL THREE sections: 
RESEARCH TOPICS
Topic 1: Digital Media as a Distraction (Week 1)
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier – Chapter 1: Distracted by Everything PBS Online Video Documentary Series – Chapter 1 (00:00 – 08:28 minutes)
Topic 2: Digital Media’s Effects on the Brain (Week 1)
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier – Chapter 2: What’s It Doing to Their Brains? (PBS Online Video Documentary Series – Chapter 2 (08:29 – 10:40 minutes)
Topic 3: The Use of Digital and Social Media in Politics (Week 2)
(Smartphone political ads target non-political events to talk directly to voters, one by one (web page)
Topic 4: Digital Humanitarianism (Week 2)
Innovations in Humanitarian Relief (PBS online video)
Topic 5: Virtual Worlds and Their Impact on Society (Week 3)
Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier- Chapter 7 Virtual Worlds PBS Online Video Documentary Series – Start the video then Navigate to Chapter 7 (52:05 – 1:01:26)
Topic 6: Fake News (Week 3)
Fake News Vs Real News (PBS Online video)
Topic 7: Digital Rights Management (DRM) (Week 4)
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (web page)
Topic 8: Filter Bubbles (Week 4)
. How Filter Bubbles Isolate You (YouTube Video)
Measuring the Filter Bubble: How Google is measuring what you click.
Topic 9: Data Visualization (Week 5)
“Information is Beautiful” http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Big Data Visualization (YouTube Video)
Topic 10: The Digital Divide (Week 6)
Digital Divides 2016 | Pew Research Center  http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/digital-divide/2017 
Small towns join forces to bridge the digital divide (YouTube video)
Topic 11: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Week 6)
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (PDF)
Topic 12: E-commerce (week 7)
How Amazon Controls E-commerce: Amazon.com the Hidden empire: (online slide show – 84 slides)

What have you learned in the course about representations of sex, love, and romance that you didn't know before? How do we continue to work in this topic without creating epistemological harm? For example, how do we ensure that when we are writing, reading, and researching about marginal communities to which we do not belong, how do we facilitate a method of ethics

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What have you learned in the course about representations of sex, love, and romance that you didn’t know before? How do we continue to work in this topic without creating epistemological harm? For example, how do we ensure that when we are writing, reading, and researching about marginal communities to which we do not belong, how do we facilitate a method of ethics? What must we be attentive to? (I advise a close look at Hartman’s chapter for help on what it means to do justice-affirmed scholarship that does not perpetuate violence or erasure.)

 In Book 9 of Paradise Lost, Milton makes the claim that his story of the fall from Eden and Adam and Eve's recovery is "Not less but more heroic" (14) than any of his epic predecessors.  Make the case for two of the following to represent a new kind of hero:  Sundiata, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, Adam and Eve.  Although not required, referring to some of the heroes that we have studied would be useful.

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In Book 9 of Paradise Lost, Milton makes the claim that his story of the fall from Eden and Adam and Eve’s recovery is “Not less but more heroic” (14) than any of his epic predecessors.  Make the case for two of the following to represent a new kind of hero:  Sundiata, Hunahpu and Xbalanque, Adam and Eve.  Although not required, referring to some of the heroes that we have studied would be useful.
2.  Deception figures largely in Popul Vuh and Paradise Lost.  Compare and contrast Milton’s Satan and the Mayan twins use of deception.  How do they differ?  What makes their trickery so successful?  Although not required, referring to some of the other deceivers that we have studied would be useful (to give just one example, some of the deceivers and traitors found in Dante’s Inferno).
3. Discuss the role of women in Sundiata.  Compare and contrast its treatment of women with the depiction of women in Popul Vuh, Paradise Lost, and/or any of the previous epics that we have studied.  Is woman mainly subordinated to her male counterparts or does she exert some degree of power or agency?
4.  Mortality, the inescapable truth of death, looms large in all three epics.  The Mayan twins die as part of their plan to rid the underworld of dark forces; Sundiata loses his mother Sogolon and must struggle to gain her proper burial; and, of course, Adam and Eve introduce death, not only of themselves but generations of human beings to come.  Despite this powerful presence of mortality in the epics, something positive emerges from these confrontations with death.  Define that positive development and how it arises from (or triumphs over?) its encounter with death.  Choose at least two of the epics for your essay.

  What does "reflection" mean?  What gets your "attention" during a learning experience? (The conceptual frameworks that will help you most with this question are from Fiddler and Marienau.).  Describe the feedback loop. What is the difference between a positive and a negative feedback loop?  (theories from Korthagen and Vasalos).

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  What does “reflection” mean?  What gets your “attention” during a learning experience? (The conceptual frameworks that will help you most with this question are from Fiddler and Marienau.).  Describe the feedback loop. What is the difference between a positive and a negative feedback loop?  (theories from Korthagen and Vasalos).
4.  Why are you continuing your education at this point? (This question refers to the Korthhagen and Vasalos Onion Model)
5.  How would you describe yourself as a learner?
How would you describe the learning experiences you had in the past?
6.  Describe an example experience of when you learned something new. Did it change your beliefs in some way? Or, did the experience not challenge your opinions very much? (This question comes from the David Kolb Acquisition model.)
7.  When you learned something new during a job, did it involve an aspect of being a “team player”? How did the social relationships affect how you learned? (Kegan and Lahey)
8.  How do beliefs and opinions we already have affect how we see a situation?

Topic: “Describe the ethics relevant to giving orders or directives.” Given this “field” (i.e., Criminal Justice, Public Relations, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare) or “organization” (C.A.R.E., NFL, Red Cross) and explain what morals lay at the heart of one's reasoning when giving orders or directives?

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Topic: “Describe the ethics relevant to giving orders or directives.” Given this “field” (i.e., Criminal Justice, Public Relations, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare) or “organization” (C.A.R.E., NFL, Red Cross) and explain what morals lay at the heart of one’s reasoning when giving orders or directives?

Chapter Five . Explain the symbolic and arbitrary nature of language.. Define the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and explain how it illustrates the connection between language and culture.

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Chapter Five . Explain the symbolic and arbitrary nature of language.. Define the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and explain how it illustrates the connection between language and culture.
3. Define euphemism and explain its purpose in social interaction.
4. What is the process of persuasion? Discuss how you utilize persuasion on a daily basis either at school, work or with your family.
5. Compare and contrast I-statements and you-statements