Blog Post 2 Prompt
For your second blog post you have two options. You only need to choose one of them. Whichever option you choose, your post should be several (3-4) paragraphs long.
1) You may respond thoughtfully to a previous post written by one of your classmates. IMPORTANT: Write this as a totally new post, not as a comment. Your new post should include a permalink to the post to which you are responding. (Ask me if you need help figuring out how to do this. If it's not done this way, I will likely miss your post and you will not receive credit!) After linking to the original post, provide a few paragraphs of new insight that builds off of or offers a counterpoint to the original post. For instance, you may wish to put multiple posts in conversation with each other, or to consider how a post gained new meaning for you in light of a reading assigned since the post was written. It is important that your post be original and offer something new and valuable, as opposed to just containing your offhand opinion of the thoughts presented in the first post.
2) You may write a new blog post reflecting on methodologies and modes of analysis for studying social media. After completing the readings for September 20, do you think there is an ideal method for learning about the relationships between culture and social media technologies? Are some methods preferable to others, in your opinion? Why? Imagine that the authors of the assigned readings are meeting together in a conference room. What might they say to each other about the study of social media? For example, what would Beer say to boyd, Golder, & Lotan about their Twitter article? What would Slater say to Boellstorf about his ethnography chapter? What would Boellstorf think of boyd, Golder, & Lotan's research? (You are not limited to thinking about these pairings - feel free to speculate about any of the assigned authors in conversation with each other.) Try to use specific references from the readings to back up your speculations.
Your post is due by 9am on September 27.