Week Eight

Week Eight
Social Media

Social media is a new-ish way to communicate and share information. Social media is interactive, it is about connection and communication. Some examples of Social media are: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Blogger, Google+ (can you think of any more?)

Social media usually asks users to create an online 'profile' which is kind of like a 'face' you can use online which tells other people about you and your interests. Social media is an example of New Media, where anybody can create new information. This has advantages- anybody is able to tell their own story, but there are also issues and dangers- there is lots of information on social media which can be hurtful, untrue and deliberately misleading. 

Work your way through these tasks, make sure you follow each one in order

1. Have a look at THIS video about how social media is affecting teenagers
2. Weigh up the positives and negatives of social media HERE 
3. And then contribute to THIS document

Your Learning intentions are this week are:

• Be able to differentiate between old and new media
• Understand that social media is a form of new media that produces a shared knowledge
• Look at how new media is changing our society’s knowledge production
• Understand what it means to ‘critically examine’ a source of information

Please reply with a comment stating your success criteria (how you are going to show me that you have met your learning intentions (I have done one already as an example to help you).