About Me

I'm a senior Public Relations major/Professional Writing and Editing minor at West Virginia University. The purpose of this blog is to dive deeper into the ever-expanding role of social media in public relations and advertising.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Project thoughts

1) What are the key questions for your project so far? What evidence do you have relating to these questions?
-Is social media just a fad? Will it be able to last? I believe that my project and evidence presented in it will prove that social media may be a fad, but that it is likely to last because it has thrived through many different changes such as a variety of social media platforms which I talk about in my project.
Do people actually rely on social media as much as some people claim? My project and the stats I'll use in it will prove that the majority of people do use and rely on access to social media.
2) What do you like most about your project so far? If you were explaining your project to someone, and you were conveying what you like about it and why you're interested, what really good examples would you use? (Try for at least three...) Why do you like these examples?
-I like that by going through the history of social media I'm able to show how it evolves which I feel proves that it will only continue to evolve. I think that my project provides evidence of this because I talk about how many social media platforms were based almost identically to previous platforms.
-I think that the statistics that I used in my trailer and plan on using throughout my project help to add credibility to the point I'm trying to make. The numbers that I use are evidence that my project isn't simply based on opinion.
-I think that by talking about how much social media has evolved over time helps to prove my point that it can survive change and still thrive, grow, and be just as much if not more important to most people over time.
3) What citeable evidence is associated with these examples? The examples may be citeable in themselves, i.e. they may be a video or a text, but they may also be a trend or practice. So, how would the examples appear in your bibliography? Start by drafting "a statement of use" for each example, based on the definition above.
I will cite sources that I've used for my statistics that I've gathered as well as for the images I've used in my trailer. As my writing for the project continues, I will likely gather more information from other sources on the internet such as blogs that focus on social media's use.

My main question and concern about this project is whether or not my topic is something that I'll be able to work well with throughout the rest of the semester. I'm not sure if it's something that will be interesting or important enough to work with and add something to the overall group project.

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