For part of our creative journey to create our research papers, Dr. Burton has asked us to create an annotated contact list of people we would like to contact for social proof and receive feedback from on our ideas. I call this part of the process "creating my fellowship."
Here are some of the ways that I have sought to experiment with social discovery:
I asked my friends what they thought about Orwell's 1984 in relation to The Hunger Games on Facebook and received multiple responses.
My friend Jon Oliver responded to my Facebook plea for help and sent me a link to a blog written by Jonathan Erdman, a blogger who focuses on theological topics and branches out occasionally to do book reviews, with a review of 1984 and I started a conversation with him.
Jonathan Erdman sent me a link to an article written by Alan Kirby, a Ph.D. in English Literature from Exeter College that studies about the effects of technology on the death of postmodern thought, and it would be great to get in touch with him.
I googled Alan Kirby and found his website. I will do my best to get in touch with him and ask about his feelings concerning our consumerist society and how companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple are connected with the death of postmodernism.
Holly Bound, from our class, found Prof. Graham MacPhee, who studies modern British literary history and teaches at West Chester University, when she was looking at literary conference programs. He is giving a presentation at a literary conference in London this year, so I found him on Academia.edu and looked up some of his research. I found an article written by him and emailed him about it and he responded to me shortly after that.
Dr. Burton sent me a link to a webinar that was given by Tim Wu at Harvard Law School concerning his book The Master Switch. Dr. Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and his book delves into how technologies go through cycles of control. He applies these cycles to companies like Google and Apple. After watching the video and reading a little about the book, I sought to find Tim Wu on Twitter and I started following him and sent him a tweet.
While searching on more about Tim Wu, I found a review of his book and it would be great to get in touch with the author of the review, Timothy B. Lee, because he specializes in writing about technology, copyright, and internet privacy. I also started following him on Twitter.
I looked on goodreads.com and found this book about Google. After finding the book, I searched for the author, Steven Levy, and found his website. Levy is a journalist that writes about technology and has published many other books than just In the Plex, like his book Hackers. I hope to contact him and see what his thoughts are.
This is just the beginning. I hope that my fellowship of web friends continues to grow. Social discovery is really propelling my work forward because these other people's excitement feeds my own. Their enthusiasm spurs my own and because their thoughts on issues are very current, I am able to continually reshape my thoughts and improve them as my dialogue with these enthusiasts and experts continues. Social discovery makes my work feel like it is actually important. I hope to be able to add more individuals to this list as I go.
Here are some of the ways that I have sought to experiment with social discovery:
I asked my friends what they thought about Orwell's 1984 in relation to The Hunger Games on Facebook and received multiple responses.
My friend Jon Oliver responded to my Facebook plea for help and sent me a link to a blog written by Jonathan Erdman, a blogger who focuses on theological topics and branches out occasionally to do book reviews, with a review of 1984 and I started a conversation with him.
Jonathan Erdman sent me a link to an article written by Alan Kirby, a Ph.D. in English Literature from Exeter College that studies about the effects of technology on the death of postmodern thought, and it would be great to get in touch with him.
I googled Alan Kirby and found his website. I will do my best to get in touch with him and ask about his feelings concerning our consumerist society and how companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple are connected with the death of postmodernism.
Holly Bound, from our class, found Prof. Graham MacPhee, who studies modern British literary history and teaches at West Chester University, when she was looking at literary conference programs. He is giving a presentation at a literary conference in London this year, so I found him on Academia.edu and looked up some of his research. I found an article written by him and emailed him about it and he responded to me shortly after that.
Dr. Burton sent me a link to a webinar that was given by Tim Wu at Harvard Law School concerning his book The Master Switch. Dr. Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and his book delves into how technologies go through cycles of control. He applies these cycles to companies like Google and Apple. After watching the video and reading a little about the book, I sought to find Tim Wu on Twitter and I started following him and sent him a tweet.
While searching on more about Tim Wu, I found a review of his book and it would be great to get in touch with the author of the review, Timothy B. Lee, because he specializes in writing about technology, copyright, and internet privacy. I also started following him on Twitter.
I looked on goodreads.com and found this book about Google. After finding the book, I searched for the author, Steven Levy, and found his website. Levy is a journalist that writes about technology and has published many other books than just In the Plex, like his book Hackers. I hope to contact him and see what his thoughts are.
This is just the beginning. I hope that my fellowship of web friends continues to grow. Social discovery is really propelling my work forward because these other people's excitement feeds my own. Their enthusiasm spurs my own and because their thoughts on issues are very current, I am able to continually reshape my thoughts and improve them as my dialogue with these enthusiasts and experts continues. Social discovery makes my work feel like it is actually important. I hope to be able to add more individuals to this list as I go.
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