Myspace.com Group

At first I was apprehensive as to how my group and I were going to pull together a full on class discussion based on myspace.com, but it became easy to see that there are several other social networking and media sites that have had a great amount of influence, just as myspace has. At first we all brainstormed ideas for the presentation itself; what it was going to look like, the message we were trying to get across through its appearance, the information that was most relevant, and who was bringing cookies to treat the class. The ideas were fairly free-flowing, but we were not particularly sure the direction in which our presentation would be suited in heading. It was almost as if we, as a group, were able to put the issues we felt to be relevant to digital media forth and this made our presentation seem much more enjoyable. I, as well as the rest of my group went through the topics and issues we came up with and decided from there how the class may respond to them so we could be better prepared to promote discussion instead of just saying yes that's good. During the presentation I spoke on the activism portion and how one can express their ideals on myspace or facebook and if there is a true benefit in that. On this portion and within others, the Barker book added a great depth to our presentation that we had not seen yet. In a way it allowed us to back up the claims we were making but it also just gave another opinion of digital media issues.

Overall, this group presentation and the process prior to the class discussion went smoothly and hopefully we led a good discussion