FACEBOOK CONTENT

We've used Facebook to collaborate over the semester. Here is an excerpt from a Facebook post I wrote to help clarify our direction early on.


When you do your progress reports, make sure you address the following:

1. Your exact role in the research group
2.The progress you have made so far
3. What strategies you have utilised so far
4. What problems you have encountered
5 How have you resolved these? (Or intend to resolve them)
6. How you believe your project may connect/intersect with other research projects? (either in the course or elsewhere)

So, we never really defined our individual roles. I think we need to be clear about what our own strengths are and then just roll with that, yeah?

So we can say that we are all taking on the responsibility of researching the topic however maybe for the documentary, we need to define our roles a little better. i.e. producer, director etc etc. What do you think?

We haven't made a huge amount of progress (and by that I mean we've made no progress). The only thing we've sort of done is settled on the idea that we're going to explore our topic through an academic style documentary. Talk about why we decided to do that (i.e. because it's more engrossing and interesting than a 16,000 word essay), what we envision this doco to be (i.e. an engaging presentation of our research into free media and heritage media), and how we plan on doing it (interviewing selected media practitioners and theorists, possibly gaining inside access to a media company in the process of evolving to a changing landscape).

Strategies utilised? Well we've dipped a toe into possible contacts, but we might need to bullshit this bit a little. In terms of research, a lot of it has been web-based findings, documentaries, online articles etc. They're all really relevant and great, but we've not done anything with them yet...?

Problems: Obviously making a documentary is a fairly beefy task. The biggest problem I think is that we don't yet have an example of an academic documentary to help guide ours. We need to make this look like it's as theoretical as 16,000 words on a screen.

Resolution? More research, maybe writing a mini essay and structuring the documentary around that.

How you believe the project connects with other research projects? It connects with other research projects in the course due to its nature of exploring both new and heritage media, evolving landscapes and platforms. The other group in our class that's doing a project on social media and the evolution of the 'news' clearly corresponds to ours because we are both trying to discover ways in which demographics are changing.