Spruz.com 4/12/12

Spruz.com was down for a majority of the week, but today in class we all joined the site to familiarize ourselves with it. We created our purposes site (receding shorelines in RI) and each created profiles. I added my picture as a picture with me by the ocean, as I believe the rest of my group mates did. We want to add a really cool background related to our topic. Possibly ocean tides, beaches, views of ocean, a storm on the water..etc. We each have the ability to add our own blog posts and event calendars.

We are excited to connect with other people and get the word out

Reshaping Slacktivist Rhetoric: Social Networking for Social Change

Slacktivism: is an apt term to describe feel-good online activism that has zero political or social impact. It gives those who participate in ‘slacktivist’ campaigns an illusion of having a meaningful impact on the world without demanding anything more than joining a Facebook group” (Foreign Policy)

-Meaning that a person can become a digital citizen. You may "like" a facebook group that supports a good cause in order to make only yourself feel good. It doesn't mean you are actually DOING anything for that cause, but you are doing it to fill some kind of personal forfillment. It is used to describe people who are "lazy" and/or "selfish"

The line between slacktivism and activism is thin because using social media to be apart of a bigger picture and participating in real life, real world, life affecting things, can be very beneficial and helpful in the part of raising awareness. social networks can only be as good as the person can make them. Get involved.

This article does a lot of talking about about how with the social networks we have available to us today we can do SO much good with them and make so much change, and become a civic engager, yet, very little of us are doing so. Just because we are not at a debate or in the audience of a political movement, we can connect with others and make others aware and get the opinions of others through social broadcasting online. Making groups, blogs, sites, etc. Most teens and young adults, and I believe most current day adults, get their news from the internet. All social network sites and based from the internet - facebook, twitter, linkdin..etc. Though most agree that it is our civil duty to spread the word of good causes and staying informed and spreading the word, as our most important duties, their online activity did not account on behalf of that previous stated belief. 

Everything is about "knowledge to take action." If we can help each other and encourage each other to spread the message of something they believe and make their word aware to others, then they will. By raining on someone parade and discouraging their actions, people are less likely to take initiative, esp younger generations looking for approval from older generations. Students need to become fully aware of the changes that they can make but utilizing the internet and social media for civic purposed and not just to roam pinterest and stumbleupon.

social network infrastructures

Our group topic: Tides changing in RI oceans and shorelines
Looking through facebook there are several ideas I like and am interested in setting our group page up like:
- Since facebook is 'timeline' now, the picture we could have as our cover picture could be the Narragansett beach or towers, or even outside Ocean Mist where the water is so close to it, and its factual that soon the water will wash it away
- We can like several of ocean related and rhode island related issues (save the bay, etc)
- Making an event calendar and marking separate dates where events around ocean and the bay occur
- Upload informational photos and information
- Posting articles

I like the different backgrounds that twitter has to offer too.
And the hashtags to allow followers to reference to you.

Social Network Sites

Highlight and reflect on the article main points via a Process Blog post.

Social Network Sites:

• ·      Are described as “well based services” that allow people to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
• ·      Networking is not the primary practice of these sites, or finding people, but to connect with people who are already in their social circle. (labeled, “social network sites”)
• ·      Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other
• ·      First social network – 1997 – sixdegrees.com – closed 2000 because it was not serviceable enough
• ·      Others were launches between 1997 and 2000
• ·      Ryze launched in 2001 – manage business networks
• ·      Friendster - "one of the biggest disappointments in Internet history"
• ·      three key SNSs that shaped the business: cultural, and research landscape
• ·      Facebook was designed to support distinct college networks only.
• ·      Beginning in September 2005, Facebook expanded to include high school students, professionals inside corporate networks, and, eventually, everyone.
• ·      Other corporations have started investing research, time, and money into social media sites because of the ever more growth of them.
• ·      Social networks are broad, and theyre starting to become more specific
• ·      U.S. Congress has proposed legislation to ban youth from accessing SNSs in schools and libraries
• ·      SNS is organized around people … not interests
• ·      “Fakesters” – fake profiles
• ·      Ties between people can be weak ties – example : facebook
• ·      SNSs are "networked publics" that support sociability, just as unmediated public spaces do.
• ·      In addition to the themes identified above, a growing body of scholarship addresses other aspects of SNSs, their users, and the practices they enable. For example, scholarship on the ways in which race and ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality connect to, are affected by, and are enacted in social network sites raise interesting questions about how identity is shaped within these sites.
• ·      Cyworld—the online context reinforces certain aspects of users' cultural expectations about relationship maintenance

The past 20 years, social networks have exploded throughout the Internet. Many have crashed and burned, and some remain what most people log on to on a daily basis (ie: facebook, linkdin). It is a phenomenon that’s expanded all over the world and a multi billion dollar industry. There is so much that goes into the making and maintaining of a social website and so many different aspects. Between relationship maintenance and issues of identity, performance, privacy, self-presentation, and civic engagement, the research seems never ending. The social network sites continue to grow and more and more features and information is provided for them. These show how online and offline experiences are directly correlated. 

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'''Itinerary''' is in [[Region_name]].

==Understand==
Founded in 1694, Harwich is made up of East Harwich, Harwich Center, Harwichport, Pleasant Lake, West Harwich, South Harwich, North Harwich. With a population of 12,677 full time residents and a summer population of approximately 40,000, Harwich has much to offer including four protected harbors, tranquil beaches, historic architecture, bike and hiking trails, arts, culture, cuisine, shopping and more.

==Prepare==
Beach clothes, beach blankets, towels/chairs, change of clothes, sunscreen, sunglasses, money

==Get in==

==Go/Walk/Drive/...==

==Stay safe==

==Get out==

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9am- Bonatts Bakery
930am-
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ENTRIES
1. Day trip for young adults Harwichport to Chatham
2. Chatham day trip
3. Chatham/Harwichport with children

wikitravel goals, non goals, rules (2/13) -

Explore Wikitravel.com. Familiarize yourself with all goals, non-goals, rules, and regulations for the site. Post self-sponsored notes and ideas to your process blog throughout the week.

Wikitravels mission is:
Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide.

With my Wikitravel blog I plan on taking away many of the goals and non goals from there and incorporating them into what I am writing on. I plan on:
Not being biased in opinionated
Being truthful in my posts and information given
Provide useful information that I would seek and want to know; prices, locations, hours of business...etc
No promotion of local businesses
Provide my personality in the posts....no boring posts!

wikitravel articles-self sponserd notes (2/20) -

Continue to explore Wikitravel.com. On your own, browse through several different articles and itineraries, paying particular attention to areas you know well. Focus on writing guidelines, contribution criteria, and creating new entries. Post self-sponsored notes and ideas to your process blog throughout the week.


In my itinerary I want to include sections like 'to do with kids' and list what age range would be appropriate for what age groups. I would like  to include beach/water activities because of how directly on the water the lower cape is. I would like to include places to stay, because we are doing 4 towns over the course of 4 days. I would like to include shops becuase of the great availability of shopping around, and also bakeries...some of the best bakeries ive ever eaten at!