Global Warming and Social Networking Wiki Page
Once again, our class was to make another wiki page with Wet Paint Central, but we were to make a page about Social Networking.
After having a lecture about Social Networking, discussing about the different communities and identities that can be created for it, we were to make a wiki page discussing a global
subject and how it was affected by different aspects of social networking.
I was in a group with Pheobe Ruddock, Nicholas Deas, Josh McDowell and Emma Daffern. The subject we were to discuss was Global Warming. We were also tasked with creating a 300 word thread about a certain aspect to Social Networking, these included:
Social Networking and Identity
Social Networking and Collective Intelligence
Social Networking and the Creation of Communities
Social Networking and Democracy
Social Networking and Distribution
I chose to write about how Global Warming can affect Social Networking and Identity. I decided to discuss how peer pressure from online chats and communities can stop a user from sharing their opinion.
The assignment was quite straight forward and simple to achieve, but what held me back was the fact that we were using Wet Paint Central. Wet Paint central is an awful website. It does not work on all web browsers; it does not give you the ability to post a picture, video or link on a thread. You cannot find your wiki unless you sign in and look at your profile.
The whole idea of a wiki is so that students can go on separate computers and produce their own work online, but Wetpaint central stops you from achieving this. When Josh and I were working on the wiki on separate computers, we updated the wiki page at the same time. This led to Wet Paint Central to crash and erase the work we just uploaded to the page. We were then forced to type the work out again and updated separately, which in my opinion, defeats the purpose of using a wiki.
After having two experiences in creating a Wiki page, I have discovered that I am more confident and comfortable with working on an essay. This may be due to the fact that the Wiki page can be seen by anyone and everyone, while with an essay, it can only be seen by my lecturer, myself and anyone I choose to see it. Maybe I would not have found creating a Wiki such a daunting task if I had used something other than Wet Paint Central, but I do feel that writing a Wiki is not in my comfort zone.
