Activism & Agency - Process
Introduction
In order to create our group, everyone in the class decided individually what mission they'd each like to undertake for the Culture mission. Once everyone had identified what mission they'd like to undertake, everyone joined a group of like-minded people to take on the task. After we had formed our group we had, gotten each other’s contact details and set up a WhatsApp group and slack channel to communicate with each other to coordinate our work for the project. After this, we all brainstormed ideas on how we should take on the task, what we should focus on and what should be added after we get our main point of the assignment completed. I was personally interested in this topic because I think activism is important in the world we live in where there are many injustices and issues that need to be fixed. Without activism, nothing would ever change.
Goals
Our goals for this assignment are to learn about activism in the age of social media, how it changes from before social media, what hashtag activism is, learn about certain popular hashtags in recent times etc.
Among learning about hashtag activism, another goal is to learn how to archive and annotate social media content. To do this, we will be using TAGS, to archive rising hashtags and produce commentary on said hashtag.
Upon completing all of our groups predetermined tasks, we wanted to create a PowerPoint presentation on our project to show what we have learned and achieved over the course of completing the mission. We had to make sure that we didn’t use too much text in our presentation as it would looks as if we didn’t do much research if we just read from the screen so we decided as a group that we would have bullet points in our presentation to show the important details about each slide and we would then expand further from our knowledge gained from conducting research. We also needed to make sure that we each did an adequate amount of research in the discussed topics because at the end of our presentation we wanted to have a section where people in the audience could ask us questions, so we didn’t want to be caught off-guard. To create our presentation for this mission, we wanted to each create a PowerPoint presentation each, then meet up and take bits and pieces from each to make it as collaborative and well put together as possible.
