Finished Project

Check it out.

http://web.mac.com/adamschwartz5/Tech_and_FB/Home.html

Process Memo

This topic was great to cover and really can appeal to college students because of the mass number of student body that are constantly online and checking facebook. I really enjoyed going out and talking to people and seeing what their views were on facebook, some were kinda camera shy but everyone I talked to helped the project. When editing the students I talked to I had some difficulties with the footage because it was over exposed but tried to fix as much as I could with the color correction tool. Interviewing Professor Loges was a unique experience, hes very knowledgeable and can really knows a lot about communications and theory, it was hard for me to ask the questions I wanted him to answer but overall he gave me tons of stuff to use and look at.

Some frustrations I had along the way with the project was with the team. Sarah doesn’t live in Corvallis so it was kinda hard to find times meet up and work on stuff together, but we made it work. Josh had some work commitments so at times I felt I was alone working on this project, like we were supposed to work on the video together but I did everything. I didn’t receive Josh’s story until day of presentations, so that was kinda stressful. In the end we came through and pulled this thing together. My contributions were interview loges, talking with students, making a short video, putting together a psychological story, then taking everything from everyone and create a webpage. Sarah was the editor, found a video on facebook, and wrote the professional page. Josh wrote the about the page. At times it was stressful but overall it was success. But im glad its over. Ha.

The Monday Night Rush

I had lots to do Monday night. We still havent received one part of our project so the stress level started to rise. Images still needed to be created for the project website and I needed to post things on the blog, opps. Stress increaser. The designing of the webpage is coming together and starting to look like a mimic of the facebook layout. Im learning web design and its kinda fun but lots of work.

Deadlines

Well over the weekend. We were all supposed to write our portions of the project and send it to each other via email. However we had some complications of when things were done and deadlines were not followed. I had to start designing the webpage and was started to get worried about what the design was going to look like and how we are going to present our information. However i think everything will work out fine.

Editing footage

Hi all.  So on sunday June first, I spent my night in computer labs at Hovland and was editing the footage. I had some problems with the camera and over exposed the image. I did some color correction fixed some of it. However, when i uploaded it to youtube, it all became darker. haha. But its not bad, just a montage of Oregon State students and facebook.   

 

Students on FB

So on Friday May 30th I went walking around campus and asked students about facebook and their uses with it. Some questions I asked them were, Are you on facebook? Why do you have a facebook account? Is your facbook account distracting you from school? What are some positive things you’ve received from having a facebook account? How many times do you check it a day? Do you plan keeping it after college, why or why not? 

Loges interview

 

Interview with Loges

 

On May 28^th I interviewed professor Loges.

 

The questions I asked him were…

 

1. Where did you get your Undergraduate Degree?

2. Your Masters, and Doctrine degree?

3. How long have you been teaching?

            - How long at OSU?

4. My group is focusing on technology we are using today that can help/hurt us in the future, in particular Facebook, do you have a Facebook account?

5. Why did you create a Facebook account?

6. What is your concern with Facebook?

7. Are people resorting to social networks and finding a false sense of community as means to treat depression of some sort?

8. What are some advantages you can see from Facebook?

9. Do you think its beneficial for students to spend more time with things that are more productive?

10. As I have been doing research on this topic I have noticed a education is brought up a lot, do you think are excessive use to the internet is hurting us as an Americans and other countries are getting smarter?

11. A few decades ago if someone had a question they would go ask a friend or go down the hall, initiated human contact. Now everyone just goes to Google, do you think we are on a path that is dehumanizing us?

12. Any other comments or concerns? 

IDEAS!

So as the week bled into the 27th our ideas became more concrete and we started getting more of a focus with out technology category. We decided we would look at the developing web 2.0 and focusing on the popular social network site, FACEBOOK. Sarah is going to focus on how it can help/harm peoples career and profession. Josh is looking into the history and foundation of facebook, and I am taking a look at the psychological sides of facebook.  

Start of Project

So in the week of the May 19th my group decided we need to gain a a focus and decide what to do our final project. I had already come in with some previous ideas about technology and possible effects it could have students in the future. This week was mostly brainstroming. It turned out that Sarah, Josh, and I will work together for this final project and have create a sweet project. 

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