Respond to the following reflection prompts in your post as reflect: • How would you describe or characterize your information experience in social media? Think about the seven characteristics of new mothers’ information experience in social media. Do any of these resonate for you? What other characteristics would you add? • What strategies do you have in place to keep yourself up-to-date with information on topics that interest you, either personally or professionally? Think more broadly – about social information, personal news, current affairs. How do you engage with this kind of information? How do you manage information you find and might like to use again later? How do you decide what information you will engage with and what you don’t? • You might notice that in the danah boyd article, the words ‘content’ and ‘information’ are used to describe the same thing. Are they the same things, or is this a conflation of terminology? • Number of sources/references = 2-3 • add pictures but please make reference for them www.er.educause.edu/articles/2010/10/streams-of-content-limited-attention-the-flow-of-info The seven characteristics of new mothers New mothers’ information experience in social media is social. It is primarily played out in spaces where new mothers have networks of contacts. It occurs through direct interaction with other people, observing other people and their social interactions, or accessing archives of social interactions that occurred previously. New mothers’ information experience in social media is individualised. It is specific to the individual mother, her experience of mothering, her life experience, her broader frame of reference, and her social media context. No two mothers have the same social media context because there are many variables – including networks, settings, platforms used – that define the context. While it is possible to abstract experience to the level of theoretical concepts (presented in this thesis as categories of experience), there is variation in participants’ experiences within the categories. New mothers’ information experience in social media is immersive. Participants are immersed in their social media context throughout the day, experiencing information in and through their social media feeds. New mothers’ information experience in social media is personal, involving personal information, related to their personal lives, and dealing with personal (sometimes intimate) matters. New mothers’ information experience in social media is somewhere between public and private. Private spaces and privacy settings afford a sense of security, however, assumptions about the extent to which spaces are private are not always correct. Further, even private posts can be made public through various means. New mothers’ information experience in social media is context-specific, not just to social media as a broad context, but also to the individual’s particular social media context. New mothers’ information experience in social media is constantly changing, because their use of social media changes over time. They take up new platforms and stop using existing ones, and the extent to which they use particular platforms can vary over time. Platform functionality changes impact on the ways participants use social media, and networks are expanded, reduced, and refined Criteria sheets& requirement: How to Structure Your Posts Every post needs three key elements: • Introduction — this hooks the reader and introduces the topic • Main body — this explores the topic, often with subsections or several bullet points • Conclusion — this rounds off the post and gives a call to action Give evidence Your opinion is a critical component of the posts – we want to hear your thoughts and your opinions. But you also need to give evidence. Evidence should not be limited to your own anecdotal experience. At a minimum it should be informed by the learning resources we make available. To achieve the best result it should also be supported by examples or theory sourced from your own independent research. Give credit where it’s due Cite or attribute other people’s material in your posts. Posts without any citation or attribution E.g. Twitter is being used by more and more young people, according to recent Pew Research. Use the functionality of the medium It is extremely important to take full advantage of the functionality of the medium. Add appropriate links, embed other media, and include images
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