CSU Exploring and Evaluating Social Media Use Presentation

Exploring and Evaluating Social Media Use

Social media and the Internet have changed how we communicate and how we perceive ourselves in our social worlds. We not only consume social media, but we use it to shape and deliver information about our perspective and events in our lives to an audience.

For this assignment, you will interview—in person or virtually—someone whom you know to be an active social media user.

Part 1:

Review this 8-minute video (Links to an external site.) for help with conducting interviews.

Contact the person you would like to interview and set up a date and time this week.

Perform your interview by using these five required questions:

1. How often do you think about your posts and “likes” when you’re not using social media?
2. When do you consider how your posts and other people’s posts that you “like” will look to other social media users? How often do you change your mind about making a post or liking a post due to how it will look to others?
3. What are some specific, positive effects of social media use on your friendships and family relationships?
4. What are some specific, negative effects of social media use on your friendships and family relationships?
5. Is there anything you’d like to add?

As the interviewer, please be sure to take notes–you’ll submit them with your assignment.

Part 2:

Using Powtoon (www.powtoon.com (Links to an external site.)), create a 5-slide presentation that discusses and analyzes what you learned from your primary source about social media usage. Your analysis will compare/contrast your interviewee’s responses to information you learn from at least 2 other scholarly sources.

Also, copy/paste the URL for your Powtoon at the top of a page, then write one page that reflects on how your experience with developing a primary source and conducting an interview compares and contrasts to the traditional essays you have written in the past.

At the end of your reflection, include the notes from your interview.

To find scholarly sources, use the Communication and Mass Media Complete database in the CSU Global Campus library: https://csuglobal.libguides.com/cmmc (Links to an external site.)

To get started with Powtoon, view this helpful Quickstart Guide: https://www.powtoon.com/tutorials/ (Links to an external site.)

Submit the link to your Powtoon to the classroom by following this helpful guide to https://support.powtoon.com/en/article/exporting-your-powtoon-to-the-player-page (Links to an external site.) – Please note, your Powtoon will be indexed and searchable in search engines, so if you do not wish to include identifying information on the Powtoon, you don’t have to.

Requirements:

• You must include at least 2 scholarly sources from CSU Global’s Communication and Mass Media Complete library database.
• Create a 5-slide presentation using Powtoon, not counting the required title and reference pages.
• Copy/paste the URL from Powtoon onto your one-page reflection. Upload your one-page reflection, where you discuss how your experience with developing a primary source and conducting an interview compares and contrasts to the traditional essays you have written in the past.
• Your citations in the text of your Powtoon presentation must be formatted according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). You can find additional helpful guides on making presentations in the CSU Global Library.