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Digital Assignment 1

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2015-01-28 22:13

UPDATE: You can get started on your final report by clicking on the "Start Report" link in upper right box on this page.

Digital Assignment 1 is a collaborative research project focused on the observation of community in an online site. The assignment is divided into two parts. In Part I, your group will research a site of your group's choice. In Part II, you will write up an individual report based on your research. Specific details of each part are as follows:

Part I: Collaborative Research

This part we jump started in class on Thursday, January 29th. The lecture for that day contains the information we went over in class.

  • Work as a team to find information on the topics listed here.
  • Create bookmarks using the Diigo account created for you. The link to the Diigo Group for this class is here. Be sure to install on of the Diigo tools on your browser to more efficiently conduct research. As described in class, Diigo can be used to bookmark, tag, and highlight web pages.
  • In saving bookmarks, use tags to classify your content. Use @sitename to associate your bookmark with a specific site (e.g. @youtube), and #topic to associate your bookmark with a specific topic (e.g. #socialcontrol).
  • Each person is responsible for at least five bookmarks, but you are encouraged to create more.

Part II: Individual Reports

  • Each student will be responsible for filing a final report. The final report will be a web form on this site whose parts will loosely match the areas listed in the Research Questions page.
  • Each student will submit their own report. However, students may discuss with each other, and ideally as a group, their views on the various research questions. Conversation is encouraged. However, the final repoart itself will be protected by the Honor Code.
  • Reports should liberally include evidence from the Diigo collection. References included quoted passages where necessary, along with links to the bookmarks themselves. You may include any bookmarks, include those from other groups.
  • The report is due before class at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, February 17th.The report will not be a conventional paper; instead, it will produce submitted to this web site as a database entry. Instructions for this process will be available next Tuesday, the 10th of February. The report will require approximately 1500 words to complete, or the equivalent of a six page paper.