Group Presentations! 11/30/17

ESOC 211 Group Presentations!
Image: Wikimedia Commons

This week we had our Collaborative Group 2 presentations. I thought it would be interesting to put these comments in my blog!

Community Commitment
Group 3: Hannah Leigh Johnson, Alan Castillo, Ryan Cohn, Christian Williams, Ethan Mermel

The First Group (3) that went made a came up with a good product. The video was concise in the points it made as well as some interesting facts and statistics in the presentation. I had no idea that there was that high of a number of college students committing suicide. Social media also had a part to play in the suicide narrative as it can have an impact in preventing it (Reddit)

Toxic Food Environment
Group 4: Jeremy Thompson, Alex Lozano, Shannon Washington, Josh Quirk, Kaci Burden

This presentation was incredibly informative. The video was comical and I enjoyed learning more about nutrition. This is important because there are many options of items to consume and therefore we need to learn what options to choose.

Group 2: Gabe Lemon, Corey Trittler, Evan Tinder, Wenhao Wang
Modern Slavery

This group made a great point in identifying modern slavery. Human Trafficking involves forced labor, and sex slaves. It was a grim topic but one that definitely needs to be talked about. This was a great topic of presentation because not many people are aware of it as it is happening in our backyards.

Comments

  1. UnknownDecember 1, 2017 at 9:34 PM

    Hey Jacob! I also thought Group 3's product was one I did not think about. They had a one of the best videos because of those facts, even though the transitions were a little weird and made it kind of hard to read. It was shocking to me as well; I had no idea how prevalent teen suicide was. I liked the Toxic food idea but I thought their video wasn't loud enough and it was hard to understand their points. However they made up with it and did a great job just as group 3 did. My group was the last one on Modern Slavery and I thank you for the feedback! Well done!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Save the Tree Octopus 11/07/17

Image
“Save the Tree Octopus” Image: Wikimedia Commons This week we covered the effects of the spreading of misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and bullshit. The Tree Octopus reading was created with the intent of demonstrating the spreading of content from user to user. In the article it described a tree-inhabiting octopus and surrounded its fictitious existence with a few real octopus facts. Although the “tree octopus” is not a real thing, the author sprinkled some facts and edited pictures to fool readers into sharing the content. The point of the article although satirical, was to see if the “consumer” or reader would possess the ability to digest information with sound and informed judgement. Misinformation, Disinformation, Fake News, or Bullshit? Answer: A little bit of everything! What the author did here was an artfully done precursor to the Onion. This article was a masterpiece of integrating all four descriptions in the reading. Now the question is...
Read more

Who Was Ada Lovelace? 10/24/17

Image
Who was Ada Lovelace? Image: Wikimedia Commons Ada Lovelace was born Dec 10, 1815 to Lord Byron and Augusta “Ada” Byron Countess of Lovelace. She was taught an extensive educational background in science and mathematics and built an affinity languages and numbers. She met the inventor Charles Babbage who was a scientist and mathematician. Babbage was known as the creator of the “Difference Engine”, a device designed with the purpose of performing and solving mathematical calculations. Ada was fascinated by the machine and chose to work under Charles Babbage. Ada went on to publish a translation of an article about the Difference engine and its analytical success and put short and concise additions to the literature. So what? Known most famously as the first female coder. She earned her fame through her work and proved that women also belong in the fields of science, math, and computer programming. The legacy of Ada Lovelace culminated with her contributions to t...
Read more

Brand Building in the Digital Age 10/29/17

Image
Brand Building in the Digital Age by Jacob Chan Image: CC0 License, Pexels.com This week we were tasked to read into brand building. In particular to our learning objectives was the reading assignment “Branding in the Age of Social Media ” by Douglass Holt in the Harvard Business Review. I thought this was an interesting read personally due to the fact that brand building has a tremendous impact on modern day business! With many evolving industries, many new markets have been created in the information economy. Many of these have to do with social media management and involve research and adaptation. On the flip side, corporations are attempting to become less faceless by turning to consultants in this new era of online branding. From what I gathered from the reading, social media itself can be described as a billboard or giant playground for showing the world your own brand/product and it is an amplified system of word of mouth communication. It represents more of a...
Read more