Kaelan Gray

Durham College Renewable Energy Technician - Social Media and Society 2018

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@brysons69573094 Believe me

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@vd1005908641 Good point!

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#gned1411 14.3 pt 2 .... social media is a huge part of society and always will be. What I will do with this course is to continue to use social media with the respect that it is public information and a reflection of myself.

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#GNED1411 14.3: The most surprising thing I have learned was how much of a role social media has played in politics, the three most useful things I have learned are: to keep a professional online profile, everything we put online is accessible & social media is a huge part of

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#GNED1411 14.2: I have an idea for a social media technology that could exist in the future, a social or dating app that showcases a persons interests based on what they like, and generates a profile from which people can compare with their own

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#GNED1411 14.1: Something that I believe will happen in the future is the use of an overall social score, wherein people rate other people out of 5 stars so that everyone has a averaged number figure correlating to their social standing, a dark but possible thought

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@brockackerman28 It’s to each their own

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@SameerVasudeva It’s hard to avoid social media’s distracting quality

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#GNED1411 13.3: When used creatively, social media is extremely beneficial to the classroom, it allows students to connect quickly to the content and share it easily between classmates

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#GNED1411 13.2: I think that colleges should start offering social media as a means to receive notifications and communications from teachers or automatically through DC Connect, I have my phone set up to give me texts from dc connect and it’s helped me a lot

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@kaatevans I forgot I had to use Linked in for a comms project! Good one

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@robert_chrapek I didn’t think of this! I have used this as well

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#gned1411 13.1: As a student enrolled in Renewable Energy, I have only ever shared interesting Facebook videos that show future experimental renewable energy systems to my classmates. I haven’t used social media for any other education use.

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@niicolemaarks Hashtags also allow for people to bandwagon

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@taylorhurst1998 I agree, it allows us to see a lot of today’s issues

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#GNED1411 12.3: Digital Activism benefits us solely as wide spread advertisement, it gets a lot of attention from mindless people. Realistically it will reach the odd person that will do something but most of time it is a pointless pursuit.

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#gned1411 12.2: A popular group that utilizes social media is Green peace, it provides activities and campaigns that allow for common media users to contribute in a comfortable way

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@SameerVasudeva That’s awesome@

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@kaatevans It popularizes involvement and therefore increases participation

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#gned1411 12.1: I have seen that social media is a very popular tool for the type of people who want to engage and be specifically be noticed for engaging with activism/ advocacy. Social media allows a wide channel and even I have gotten involved with https://t.co/ZeQbaFfJzq.