Friday, December 9, 2011

Assignment 10- A Research Paper on the Power of Social Media Networking

For this project you will write a research essay that answers the following question:


What are the 'roots' of the Occupy Wall Street movement, how was it inspired by or modeled after other world events, and how did the social media networks play a role in starting OWS up and keeping it going?


Directions- (If you did a good job when you answered the five questions from assignment 9, most of your work is done already!)

  • Review your answers for the five questions from assignment 9
  • Write an introduction for your essay that is a very short summary of some of the facts  that will answer the question above. Keep it short , give the main idea, and don't give many details in the introduction.  This will be paragraph one.
  • Now take your answers to the five questions and make one paragraph for each answer. this is where you will give all the details that you found out when you did the research. This will make paragraphs two, three, four, five, and six.
  • If your paragraphs are too short, an easy way to fatten them up is to go back to the web pages you looked at and find some quotes to add. You do it like this-  Joe Smith of the NY Daily News said,"Those dirty Occupy Wall Street people…blah, blah, blah, etc."
  • Last you must have a bibliography of the Internet sources of your information. This bibliography is where you cite your sources
  • You should end up with about three pages in a 12 or 14 point ‘Arial’ or ‘Times New Roman’ font.
Please take note.  A goal of this class is to have the students (you!) learn how to correctly cite your sources and make a bibliography. Therefore, if there is no bibliography you will get an automatic 'F' failing grade and will have to resubmit your work. Also, If your sources are not in MLA style, you will have 20 points deducted from the grade on the project!


Thursday, December 8, 2011

A Problem With Dragging Pictures

Many students have been adding pictures to their work by dragging a picture from the internet onto their microsoft word page. The PROBLEM is that when you EMAIL the document, the picture DISAPEARS!

The CORRECT way to add a picture to your work is to DRAG IT TO YOUR DESK TOP FIRST! Then you can drag it to your microsoft word page.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Assignment 9 -The Power of Social Media Networking - Research Question Help

Part TWO -Help and Hints for Questions

Please note that you can use your own internet searches in addition to these links!

Question 1-What is Adbusters and what is the evidence that Adbusters started OWS ?
  • You might find conflicting stories about if Adbusters started OWS. Report on all of them, whether yes or no!
  • Adbusters is a magazine and a group of people who work there. Adbusters is described as 'anti-consumerist'.  What does that mean? You must give a definition for anti-consumerist or anti-consumerism.
  • Give at least three examples of Adbuster campaigns as examples of their anti-consumerism beliefs.
  • Get a picture of a typical Adbuster magazine cover.
  • Get a picture of an Adbuster poster.
  • Here is a link that could help you- http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html
Question 2- What were the 2011 Tahrir Square protests and the 2011 Spanish protests?
  Question 3-How were those 2 protests (question 2) similar and/or inspirational to the OWS protests?
  • What this question is asking is what do the Egyptian, the Spanish, and the Wall street protests all have in common? How are they the same?
Question 4- Who or what is Anonymous, and how is it connected to OWS?
Question five- How did the use of social media (email, texting, twittering, blogging, Facebook, Youtube) help the movement get started and stay going?