Here are my thoughts while watching this documentary:

This documentary kind of broadened my knowledge on all things to do with hacking on the internet. I’d heard of the group ‘Anonymous’ before, but many of the other sites and groups were unfamiliar to me. This just proves how huge the space of the internet is and how many of these kind of ‘hacktivist’ groups can actually exist. If I’m being completely honest, the whole ‘Anonymous’ hacking group does frighten me a little. It is a little scary seeing what they can do, and the extent to which they can take their hacking abilities. I really don’t particularly think it’s very cool to hack into someone else’s online profiles and alter them for a joke. It just makes the internet out to be a place that is definitely not safe and user friendly.

Social Media plays a huge role in creating a community of people who share similar interests and views. It provides people with a platform with which they can express their interests and opinions, where like minded people can find each other (through usernames, hashtags, mutual friends etc), and connect on a virtual basis. People feel like they are part of a community and fell as though they can express themselves and be who they are, or want to be.

“You meet your own people finally.”

How does this documentary alter your understanding of the way you use social media?

Honestly, it doesn’t really alter my understanding. Just because I am an avid user of social media such as Twitter and Instagram, and I use my accounts to support and promote the things I love. And I don’t really mind that companies can make money from me liking their posts, or using their apps/websites. I have fun on my social media accounts and don’t really see a problem with this stuff.

What connections can you make with the role of a Social Media Producer?

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What ideas does this documentary raise in regards to the event your group is planning and the task of achieving participatory engagement?

Sharing our event and making people discuss and find interest in it will be hugely important online…..

What did you do well?

 . Completed my weekly checklist to an appropriate standard – All weeks bar one I have completed the readings and written up a blog post in conjunction with that – my posts consisted of things I found interesting, or things that I didn’t quite understand from the readings

. I Worked well collaboratively – when it came to group project I put in a lot of thought and effort, and feel as though my input along with the other two members helped build up a strong idea and final Korsakow film.

. Kept up with the weekly readings and wrote a bog post a each week on the things I found interesting or confusing – wrote down notes and quotes that I could go back to and refer to later on.

. I Attended every tutorial I could, bar 2 as I was away in Sydney – But I made sure to keep up to date and inform my tutor of my absence.

. Completed all the sketch tasks at the beginning of the semester.

 What have you learnt to do better?

 . Approaching online software – online tutorials – made sure I kept up to date with the online blog and kept referring to Seth’s website with links to Korsakow information. I have definitely learnt how to use Korsakow (technical skills) – at the beginning it frightened and confused me a little. But after weeks of reading about it, hearing about it, and actually using it, I feel as though I now know a lot more about how it works.

. My networking skills I feel have improved over the course of this semester – as this is something I wrote in my participation contract that I wanted to accomplish. Especially when it came to the Korsakow work, I found that I was reaching out to my peers and friends outside of this class on many occasions to help my understanding and further my learning. The group project also helped enable me to improve my networking skills as I worked in a group with people I had never worked with or spoken to before.

. To be more open to new ideas and new software – with all the readings and korsakow work.

 What could you have learnt to do better?

 . I could definitely have learnt to work with Korsakow at a little more of an advanced level. I said in my contract that I would spend about 2 hours per week researching and working on my technical skills, at the beginning I did do this, researching as much as I could as the thought of Korsakov kind of intimidated me. However, as the weeks went by, this time allocated to working on my technical skills disintegrated. So I could have done more work outside of class time.

. I could also have put in more of an effort with attending lectures!

. Also more effort when it comes to writing my blog posts. My blog posting has been consistent, however I Could definitely have put in more effort with my posts. – Longer, more comprehensive – more ideas could have been thought about and discussed.