text for writing assignment
Sam Hinton & Larissa Hjorth. Understanding Social Media(London: Sage Publications, 2013

Your response will be graded upon your level of engagement with the text(s) and should be at least 4 double-spaced pages long. Your response should highlight key concepts and quotes from the reading by noting some of the author’s most important points, examples that resonated with you, and questions that the text raised.

Potential topics include:

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0
How do we define and differentiate social networking sites?
Virtual/networked communities and Networked publics
The dissolving divide between online/offline
Privacy and “big data”
User generated content / User constructed content
Wikipedia / Crowdsourcing
Citizen journalism / Online Activism
Location based services / space and place
Camera phones and interacting with physical space