Month: April 2018

Our meme presentation was on the yodeling boy from Walmart. We chose this kid because he is going viral across the world and is the most present meme that we have today.

The yodeling boy was famous for his unusual yodeling act in the middle of a local Walmart. This video went viral within months and is all over the social media platforms.

Each person in our group contributed equally, and i took the part explain how this specific meme went viral and what spread it.

I think this presentation was the most interesting and most fun things we have done in this class, because it was so fun and enjoyable to see what other memes there are today and what other groups had to say about them.

My classmates were very helpful when discussing with them my proposal for research, and they gave constructive criticism on how to improve my research as a whole.

For my research proposal, I chose to look at whether it is okay for data collecting companies like Cambridge Analytica to look at our information over social media platforms like Facebook, and whether it is beneficial to our society or not. After looking into the cambridge analytics scandal, i wanted to look more into the issue and what can prevent this.

Privacy over social media is a major issue today on the internet, and lots of people are getting hacked and even identity theft nowadays.

My classmates told me to use credible sources and scholarly articles to conduct my research, as it will be difficult to take information from a non-credible source.

 

For my audio podcast, i really enjoyed gathering my interviews and piecing them together into a good sounding podcast. It was very easy collecting the sources for the audio portion of this project because most people do not like being on camera, but when i asked them for an audio statement, they weren’t even hesitant, because most people don’t like being on camera.

The software i used for this was Adobe Audition, and i used the campus computers in the radio station part of campus. I had to learn the software which took a couple of hours, but i ended up getting a good grasp on how to use it. After figuring it out, it was simple to place the interviews and my voice over into a long podcast and it sounded great.

For future audio assignments, I believe i will be prepared to piece together a podcast because i feel like i am very confident with the software now after doing this project.