Some really good questions have come up already about assessment task 2.  You’ll  (hopefully) notice that what it asks you to do is quite a bit broader than assessment task 1, and this is intentional; it’s challenging you to confront the inherent complexity of these things called networks, the web,online writing and communities.  So here’s a few points to help you get underway.

1. Get underway.  Even if you’re not 100% clear on what you’re supposed to be doing, start doing something.  It will be much easier to guide you about stuff that you’ve done, rather than stuff that you think you might do.  Use your preferred social media platform; write, respond, review, comment, create, share, anything.
2. Define Community. This is something you’ll have to do, not something that you’ll be told.  The lectures and readings give some direction on this, but you need to be able to argue (and substantiate) what you think a community is and why.
3. Engage in Conversation.  A bad approach for this task is to make something, and see what happens, and that’s it.  What you need to do is become part of a conversation, and develop this into an exchange of social currency (see Oatway reading week 8).   In short, you want responses to what you’re doing to get the conversation going.
4. Use your voice. There isn’t a direct answer for what to do in this task; the hope is that you’ve been developing skills/producing knowledge/confronting ideas that have set you up for this part of the course.  Now, put this stuff to the test, to help develop a sensibility about producing content for a particular audience – this is an inherently complex but incredibly important discipline.
5. Finally, if you’re worried, don’t worry.  At this point it’s perfectly fine to be uncertain about what you need to do, but if so, refer back to point 1.  You don’t need to explore every idea that we’ve covered in the course, just take one problem or challenging concept and try to explore that as a starting point.  You don’t know where you’ll end up, but if you go on a journey, at least you’ll have plenty to write about.  So with that, bon voyage!