Guide to Assignment 2

Overview of assignment 2

• Direct engagement with online communities

• Reflecting on social engagement

• Planning for the future

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• Rationale for choice of community

• Discuss the relevance of the community you have chosen and its importance to the industry at large. Give an overview of the technologies that the community is particularly concerned with.

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• Summary of recent community discussions

• You are also to illustrate the different perspectives that are characterised by the existing members of the community. You should then discuss the issue that interests you and show how this issue relates to the issues already discussed within the community.

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• Interventions, responses and reflection

• Discuss the interventions you make in the group discussion. This evidence should also consider the nature of the responses you receive, and how you can take the discussion forwards.

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• Technological engagements entailed by discussion

• To some extent, practical knowledge of technologies will be necessary to understand a particular conversation (for example, music technologies, games, etc). In this section, highlight the technical background to the discussions.

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• Personal Technological Targets

• In the light of this experience, you should indicate areas of practical work where you wish to gain more experience, and details of your plans for doing this.

Summary

• Submitted by email

• Put CDEV2 in the body of the email

• Deadline…Friday 4th May