Twitter Narrative Summary as a Group

Link：
http://eng3080issuperfun.blogspot.com/2014/05/twitter-narrative-summary-as-group.html

Individual Twitter Narrative Summary

1. What surprised you about your narrative? How did you adapt?

Actually, when we first come up with the frame of our twitter narrative, I thought many people would get involved in this story and propel the conflicts. But the fact is, no one seems interested in our story. So in order to solve this problem, we had to add conflicts by our own group members. Such as one of our group members will add some comments that attack one of the characters in the twitter narrative, thus we were able to continue the story.

2. Identify the points you are most proud of.

The most proud part of our twitter narrative is that our company account has gotten more than 1000 followers because the effort of our members. Though not a very effective idea, our group devoted to following others all the time in order the get the attention of them. Our group also tweet the advertisement of our products to create the credibility and gain the attentions of some people who are also in the area of cosmetics. Because of the time differences, our group members, Shalyn and Cheryl have to stay very late till the time when the westerners are active in twitter.

3. What form of media was most useful?

I think Twitter is most useful. Though I’m not that much enjoy it, I have to admit it has lots of functions. First, you can follow everyone based on your interests and know what’s going on with her/him. Also, you can share your thoughts and discuss the current issues with other people, who maybe you are strange with, in the comment box. There are a mass with information that you can search for and collect, and you’ll learnt a lot in all kinds of fields because there is little register limits to the users and every is accessible to it.

4. What form of media did you enjoy the most?

The vlog is most enjoyable for me. Actually the edit job by our member Leon is done very well. Though the conversation and the performance are not interesting at first, it can be very amusing and entertaining after edited. Actually, our members are amused by the edited version of the Vlog.

5. Least useful?

I think maybe Blog is least useful. Though, I enjoy a lot with blog because it collects all my thoughts, ideas, and feeling, its functions are so limited. Actually I don’t know what else I can do with blog in addition to presenting my works. Also, its sharing function is not as powerful as twitter, and it’s more like a private space rather than a public one.

6. Least enjoyable?

I think twitter is least enjoyable. First, the words are limited in the twitter, so it is very inconvenient and has a lot of limits when you want to express something. Also, though, twitter is a platform where you can share your thoughts or other things with all different kinds of people, it’s hard to bring their attention cause there is a mass of information all the time. When I do our twitter narrative project, actually, if only I follow others, or it’s hard to get the attentions of others. Maybe, I’ve learnt much about twitter, but from my experience, I’m not that into it.

7. Identify the points you would change and what you would do differently.

The points I want to change is the twitter narrative part. In twitter narrative, I act as current girlfriend of Cherry’s ex-boyfriend. Cherry is the founder of the CherryBlossm boutique. At the beginning, we want to show the inspiring aspect of Cherry and build a very encouraging image of her, so I should behave badly to set her spirits off to advantage. However, I haven’t fully shown my identity in the conversation with her. So if given a chance, I would change it. 

How to use vlog in our narrative story?

  Vlog can be used as a tool to attract certain audience with exaggerating performance and amusing actions. In our project, we can combine our narrative story with our cosmetic products to produce an effect where audience can learn more about how the story goes on along with the appearance of the cosmetic boutique. Maybe we can film a girl who constantly complains about how heartbroken she was after his boyfriend’s treachery, and this boutique can be a faith for her to change herself not only on the surface but also inside to let her boyfriend regret. This can reveal a theme of our company that cosmetic not only make you looks beautiful but also stronger inside. 

My Essay

By Luna       

       Heracles and Gandhi

When asked about hero, the first thing that always flashes into our minds is the athletic figures with super power, helping people fight against scary enemies and brings them with peaceful life environment. Of course, different people hold different concept and standard in their mind to define and judge a hero. In fact, there are thousands of heroes in this world that have contributed a lot to the development of the human society. Most of them have their own characteristics and personalities to be easily distinguished by us. However, there are many similarities among the characteristics of different hero as well, which counts a lot to the generation of every single hero.

From ancient time to modern, the heroes emerges all the time, especially when there is a big catastrophe among the human society, to serve as the representative of power to fight against evil or the leader of spirit to guide us to the right direction. Among these heroes, two heroes had left me with a great impression; one is Heracles, the greatest character in Greek mythology, and the other is the modern spiritual leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Their existence has the changed their whole world.

When it comes to their figures, it seems that they are completely different from each other. Heracles, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, is regarded as the strongest of the Greek heroes with big muscles around his body. He owned the extraordinary strength and the perfect masculinity, which helped him to overcome the challenges and achieve success. His masculinity was also considered as the personality that should be had as a true man. On the contrast, Gandhi had a really skinny body, scrawny hands and a gaunt face full of smile, which was the result of his fast for his resistant to the oppression of the British government. He was not a typical hero-like person even a bit weak with little energy. However, what he looks like outside does not amount to his inner power. Different from his skinny appearance, Gandhi was no longer weak but full of energy to fight for his people.

Gandhi was devoted to saving people out of bad situation and influenced the whole world through his advanced and people oriented thoughts rather than physical battle with his enemies. He fought for human’s rights, wanted to make an equal world without discrimination, a world regardless of race, gender and nationality. He tried to influence the world using the most moderate way instead of the intense war among countries. He advocated “non-violence, non-cooperation” to show his determination to be against the battle. As for Heracles, instead of using his thoughts to influence others, he preferred to take advantages of his physical strength. Most of his achievements were the results mostly attributed to his athletic body and extraordinary power. During the age when the human culture was low developed, the physical power was deemed as the most important factor to defeat everything. And with his power, he was able to accomplish the hard 12 labors.

If we know their background, it seems that these two figures are completely from two different worlds, living in the different ages with different cultures and values. However, in my opinion, though these two people seems has nothing in common towards their physical appearance, while one is strong with a great strength and power, the other is just a thin and weak old man, they have many similarities towards the realm of spirit, their experiences and achievements.

One of the most important characteristics shared by these two heroes is selflessness: they both had contributed to the happiness of the public people without the intention of being rewarded. These two people, from different time and space, demonstrated to us that only the selflessness that can receive the longest love and respect from people. And Heracles and Ganhi are two typical representatives to hold this precious merit. Heracles always fought for justice. He was voluntary to help many people out of plight without asking for reward. He gave a hand to Prometheus and shot and killed the eagles tortured Prometheus when Prometheus was punished by Zeus for his stealing fire for the human beings. As for Gandhi, he was famous for his lifelong devotion for seeking for rights for human being. He was able to lead a wealthy life initially if he chose to live as a normal people；However, he occupied himself in a world together with those who were miserable and hard. He fasted to resist the oppression; he was imprisoned for many years for his not obeying the rules from the powerful country. Both of Heracles and Gandhi had done a lot as well as suffered a lot for the people and the land. They are selfless, and they are loved by most people.

A hero always holds an extraordinary willpower. Only if a person has the determination upon doing something that he/she can overcome the most difficult obstacles, pass the darkest road by their own. So, the second character shared by both heroes is the willpower. Both Gandhi and Heracles had met with many difficulties in their life. As we know, Heracles had accomplished 12 labors assigned by his brother Eurystheus. He fought with unknown and scary creatures all the time without being afraid. He never quitted even though he knew the danger was approaching, but insisted in his own decision all the time. When he initially was visited by two nymphs and offered with the choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life; Heracles chose the latter one. Of course, his latter experience in his life has showed to us that he exactly led a hard and challenging life. Why did he choose a harder life rather than an easy one? I think that’s because of his determination, and the same with Gandhi. Gandhi chose to fight for the rights for his people. After his career as a lawyer, he spent two decades in South Africa to develop his political and ethics leadership skills, and he led his nation to fight for independence and freedom using the skills he learnt, from which we can know he had already designed his own life when he was very young and he spent a lot of time to maintain his goal. Both of them had already chose their own life before they were exposed with the danger of the real and cruel world, and they stuck to their beliefs and destination with the determination.

In terms of their achievements, both of them had made the world safe for mankind regardless their ways. No pain, no gain. It’s is always the truth that is fit for every person, so do heroes. So in order to make a great achievement both of them had suffered a lot and been challenged a lot with the outside force. As we know Gandhi was the leader of Indian nationalist movement against British rule, and is also widely considered the father of India. He had devoted almost all his life to offering all of the people a peaceful world. He led his country gain dependence and break away from the oppression of the British Government. He is called “father” of India. But his influence is not only limited in his own country, India, but spread to the whole world. His spirits and success had inspired the movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, especially in colonial countries. Heracles, likewise, had great influence for others, such as Theseus, who set especially as a model and learn from him and them also became a great hero. Both of them are the spirit leader for the later generation to make a difference to the world.

Heroes are not those trying to pursue glories, money or names, but those who focus on saving the people and bringing them with happiness, just like what Heracles and Gandhi had done. Though, they are different from each other in most aspects, we can also find many similarities shared by both people, more concisely by most heroes. Heroes encourage the later generations all the time through their eternal spirits, which just like a light enlightening the dark and unknown road that we had never explored before. Heroes are worshiped by people as they contribute a lot for them. They make miracles and control their own life. Heroes are not only those born in the royal family, those with super power, but also those with great thought, use the spirits to impress others. In my opinion, everyone can be a hero if you quit the desire of glories, money and name but care about others, think for others, and love others.

How can add different kinds of media to create layered narrative.

  To add different kinds of media to create layered narrative in our twitter narrative can help make our story more convincible. We can use many medias in our narrative.
  Since our company's narrative story is about a girl who was heartbroken after knowing her boyfriends had affairs with another gir and broke up with himl, we can use some dark and emotional images to give a visual feeling of how sad the girl is.Also, we can also add some audio, such as some blue music and some sad words to show her sorrow. After she broken up with his boyfriend, she devoted to making her more beautiful and get to our fake company, so the pictures of the make ups can also help convince the audience that what she engages in. Since she works in a comestic company, it's also very persuasive is we upload some video about the make ups on her twitter page.

My infographic project

by Luna.
http://www.easel.ly/
Ted talk: Shhh! Sound Health in 8 Steps.

Entry 10

  This blog shows that there is little relationship between following more people and you will be followed by more people. Sometimes, how many people  following you depends on the quality of the tweets you have published. That is to say, if your tweets are meet with the interests of some twitter users , then you maybe follow you. However, this is not always the case, sometimes, how many followers you have are based on how famous you are. It's can be a very interesting phenomenon that some famous people only have one tweet on their page but with a bunch of followers, more interesting is that there might be thousands of comments under this tweet and most of the words have nothing to do with the tweets. In addtion, it's common for twitter users to come across the followers that have no relationship with you, and many of them just want you to follow back and if you do not, they will unfollow in some days. Also, some just use twitter as a platform to advertise their products.

Edit in Wikipedia

The link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuzhou

Chuzhou is a city of Anhui province, and I changed the mayor of this city from Jiang Shan to Zhang Xiangan as I have referred to the official webpage of Chuzhou Government and found this error.  

Infographic project

Part one:
1）what is useful to you?
The template is very useful for my infographic as my elements in this TED are not that united and this kind of template can help me effectively organize the content and visualize them. This template is simple and easy for me to use in my infographic.

2)what is not useful to you?
I don't not steal the content of it as we do not have the same content, in addition, maybe my picture will not be as various as those in this infographic.

3)how does the model accomodate its content.
This model is divided into several divisions and each division has its own content and explain one phenomenon. What's more, each division consists of pictures and texts and always, additional text will put below to illustrate the content.

Part two:

1)outline

1. introduction of the relationship between sound and health.

2. talk about the noise and the three health issues of headphone.

3. three quick tips to protect your ears and pass these on to your children.

4. some beautiful sounds of 'WWB": wind, water, bird.

5. 8 eight ways sound can improve health.

6. conclude with seven things you can do right now to improve your health with sound.

2)How will your infographic accomodate your content?

My content will be divided into several parts and each of them consists  of pictures and text, also graphs and table are always used to explain the phenomenon and situation.

3)what will you steal from other infographics?

I will still from other infographics the way it organize the information. As my information that i want to show on the infographic is a little messy, so i'd like to steal to make my content more clear to understand.

Entry 9

  Twitter bots is a very powerful tool to get the attention of the group of people that are targeted. Twitter bots are able to automatically comment on the tweet including the specific key words with the ads to increase the fame of the coorportation. Suppose that the twitter bots is aimed at the key words such as "makeup", "beauty" or the words that are relevant to the comestic, and there are many comments below the tweet with the words like the link of the cooperation generated by the Twitter bots. Of course, the conflicts and disruption is generated as the auto-bot never consider whether it's suitable or not with the comments such as the insurance ads below the news of the death of the famous actor. As for our company, the twitter bots will be very useful as we only have 4 people in a group and it's hard for us to appeal many people in such a short time. And the bots replace the us to work for it.

Infographic Project

Link of the Ted talk: Shhh! Sound Health in 8 Steps. https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_treasure_shh_sound_health_in_8_steps
OUTLINE

1. introduction of the relationship between sound and health.

2. talk about the noise and the three health issues of headphone.

3. three quick tips to protect your ears and pass these on to your children.

4. some beautiful sounds of 'WWB": wind, water, bird.

5. 8 eight ways sound can improve health.

6. conclude with seven things you can do right now to improve your health with sound.


  In the modern life, we always live in a place full of noise and we seldom realize it because we are almost getting used to it. However, we still should know that sound is very crucial to lead a healthy life. And this is a video telling both the harm of noise and the harmony of the sound in our life. It also provides some tips to help approach healthy lifestyle in terms of sound, which I think is very necessary for us to learn about it.
  As for the structure of content of this video, I consider it's very clear and easy for me to adapt into a infographic. The organization of the content is very easy to see. In addition, in this video, there are many relative pictures to accompany the talk of the speaker, and I can learn from it to make my infographic more easy to comprehend.

Entry 9: Response to Infographic thinking workshop

  This article mainly focuses on the description of several aspects of infographic thinking workshop, providing us with the information of the workshop's introduction, objectrives and contents. This is a didactic structure course aims at higlighting the potential of infographic thinking as modality to approach and interpret reality beyond the conventional way. Though I'm not a member of this workshop, I still can feel the passion towards the infographic thinking.
  With technology adanving, people try to embrace a new way to show information combining visuals and content on the same page; and then, the inforgraphic emerges at under this circumstance where a new technique is desired by people. And the workshop, as one of the platform for the people in this domain to communicate, to share, to experience, can make a difference and brings them with a attitude towards how powerful ingraphic will be in delivering meanings to audience. Also, they can feel the magic through their own projects on infographic.

Entry 8:

"LN"

Entry 7： Why Typography is Important

  Presenting a good work is not only the matter of the content of the work but also the form how it exhibit to the audience. That is to say, typography can be as important as the words you put in the article.
  This context clarifies these following issues: what is typography, importance of typography, identification of typography, the audience of typography and rules of typography.
  In this chapter, i've learnt that typograhy is the visual component of the written words. It can be art to help render the words in a fashion style, but more important is its utilitarian goals to attract the audience's attention. When you want to achieve the goal to benefit the reader, you, as a writer or typographer should start from the perspective of the readers and to ask yourself what the actual readers want and to cater to them rather than simply satisfy yourself or satisfy the idealized readers in your own mind. So from my own experience when i serve as a reader, i tend to be likely to pay more attention on the article that is easy to follow in terms of the physical design as it can save more extra time to read more instead of putting more effort on one essay. So, typography is one of the tools that help you to cnserve the attention from the readers to your messages you want to deliver. It is mentioned in the context that good typography reinforces the meaning of the text/good typography supports and reinforces the message. A suitable typography can help emphasize the importance for the readers and make the readers to think the works they read are worthy for the time as they can easily get the points and learn from them.
  From my point of view, to be a skilled typographer, you should be deeply understand the goals of the text, and depends on that you are more likely to produce a good typography that can attract the attention of the audience as well as cater to them.

Entry #6: Reflect on your experience as an audience:

1. How was the infographic different from the video lecture?
The infographic is very visible and very point is shown clearly on the same page, which can help you to save much time when you're busy. In addition, the infographic is static and the information is delivered without the interaction with the audience or readers. In infographic, many detail are left out while in the video there are more explanation for you to get more things.

2. Which kind of information is easier for you to comprehend?
The information in the infographic is easier for me to comprehend.
As in the infographic, the points are clearly listed out in separate space and numbered respectively. In addition, it also applies the pictures to vividly show us what's going on and what's the whole process looks like. Every single word in this infograpic are the important words that are not wordy for me to read, i can easily understand the content. When speaking of the video, i have to say, the joke or every movement he made can be a factor that distract my attention from
the content of the delivery, and as it takes me almost 19 minutes to watch it, it easy for me to forget the information he delivered before.

3. Which was a more enjoyable experience?
I enjoy the video better because it contains interactions which can bring me with a lot of fun such as the joke the speaker has said. It's a process, we can watch, we can learn along with feeling the charm of the speaker who uses his movement, his changes in the pitch of the voice and his expression to motivate me and to impress me. It's bidirectional interaction that can greatly impress me rather than unidirectional learning whose content i may forget in just a few days.

Entry 5

http://www.newdream.org/results/infographics-shorter-workweek

INFOGRAPHIC SERIES: The Benefits of a Shorter Workweek

1) Outline the infographic essay

1. Overwork in the U.S compared to other countries.

2. Health impacts of overwork.

3. Work-Life balance.

4. The lack of vacation time for overwork workers.

5. The bad environment overwork has brought to our life.

2) Provide the Rhetorical Situation of this essay

• Purpose: to call for shorter workweek for people.
• Audience: the people with a job and the government.
• Stance: objective with evidence
• Genre: analysis
• media/design: online website. Text and picture.

3) While you are only outlining the essay--not writing it word-for-word--you can still get a feeling for what this essay would look like. How is the infographic different from the traditional essay you outlined?

It is more visualized than the traditional essay. It leaves out many useless words but with the clear picture. In addition, it consists with pictures and texts, and is more eye-catching and easier to remember and focus on the emphasis of the writer of which people are more willing to read.

4) Strengths and weaknesses of the infographic: what does the infographic do better than the essay? What does the essay do better than the infographic?

Strengths: more visualized and direct, and more flexible as you can use texts, pictures, graph and so on in different colors. More brief, you can leave out useless words. And it is suitable for people from more range in ages.

Weaknesses: essay can describe more details and more persuasive than infographic. Compared with the academic essay, the infographic seems to be too easy for the educated people as they will get less information than in an academic essay.

5) How does this qualify as an essay and not a series of pictures?

It has the construct of an essay, such as the introduction, the body and the conclusion and it also has the elements of an essay, such as purpose, stance, and theme. More importantly, we can get information from these infographics and learn something from it. 

Entry 4

response to  "Searchin'" by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

  Music is about a personal experience. The appearance of the new technology has changed our relationships with music. It’s easy to get a song at present than it in the past, we just need to think, type, and retrieve, which can hardly be regarded as a revolution in our life. As a result, it seems rare for us to fall in love with a song and album as the feeling originally gotten in the process of finding a new music disappears in our life. However, we cannot deny that the technology indeed brings along with the convenience to us, of which we should take advantage of. Also, the fun of finding music can also be associated with the new technology if only you use it in a proper way. For example, You can follow your favorite act on soundcloud, creating your own radio station and subscribe to musicians you enjoy, which is also enjoyable.

  As for the form of presentation, the author has applied infographic in it and the colorful images have a huge impact to the readers. In my opinion, it is a bit like a mass for me for its confused organization.

Entry 3

I have to admit that data miner is a really powerful tool to analyze and process data collected from various website. As is shown in this work, which is the combination of words, pictures and statistics, the work shows in a clear way that how to attract others through algorithm method to find your significant other. There are 3 steps and many tips shown how to attract you target audience, using clear statistics and concise words and offer the reference for those to want to be popular.

If properly used, this technique can help us a lot in collecting information to benefit human-beings, such as in the area of health. However, there is a drawback of this that it will always stereotype one group. For instance, if it is shown that the most gays like Hawaiian shirt, it is easy for us develop a concept that a gay should wear Hawaiian shirt. In addition, if everyone follows the tips and steps, how does everyone differentiate from others? What if the majority of dudes wear the same-style clothes, snapped in the same angle and pose in the same way. Individuality is very significant element for every person to distinguish from others, why do we always label one group? 

Entry 2

The first appearance of Punk brought great shock to the majority, few people regarding it as art but labeling it with the word such as “crazy”. Public had no idea why young people were crazy about it as what they saw were the behaviors against the tradition. It seems to be a rule that most revolution begins along with the resistance and judgements from the public and acceptance is the process by time. Likewise, the idea of web 2.0 also need time to digest by people. The idea of web 2.0 was created by a specific group of people and then that idea grew into a movement, alike Punk was also a product by a specific group of people, who assigned the meaning of punk.

  The emergence of the web 2.0 and the punk are both product of the needs of the society. They have deeply reflected the features of the era. Web 2.0 appears when the web was faced with great crisis after the dotcom bust. Also, punk also mirrors the situation at that period when people needed to find an outlet to release themselves, and then there came the punk. We, as the generation live in 21the century, though don’t feel the power of Punk but know how amazing the web 2.0 is. Every change can result in a new world, just be astonished by it.

Entry 1

Summary: This article starts with the query of why does New York Times devote the front page to talk about a web site for advertisement for a car, and then introduces us the concept of a term: Social 3.0. It tells us what are the difference between web 2.0 and social 3.0, and what it will bring to us with the new thing.

Response: Social 3.0 software supports synchronous collaboration to collect the collective intelligence at the same time. The interaction of users will be more active as the information from others is received in real-time, synchronously and simultaneously. It indicates the coming of a new era, where web is no long a page but a platform where we can exchange our emotion, thoughts with others immediately. We are able to work with others in different location, so I think with the development of this technology, we will be more inspired to cooperate with others. I’m sure the interaction of the intelligence inside apps or on web page will build a more powerful world.