WRD 210:

Th, Nov. 17

Day Twenty Three

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Attendance Sheet
Quiz 5 due T, Nov. 29
Presentations final two weeks
Presentations:
Lucas Alfery, Collin Pitzer, Andrew Chmela, Jennifer Le

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Health and dating review

The Dogist
Social media and death
Work in groups

Final Project & Presentation: Social Media Campaign

Link to Google doc: here. (Also on Canvas under Assignments)
Worth 30 points
Completed in groups of 3-4. Form groups by next Tuesday, Nov. 8 and email me the
members; or, email/tell me you want to be placed in a group.
Presentations (Nov. 29, Dec. 1, Dec. 6, Dec. 8).
Final deliverables due by Dec. 10.
Link on How to create a social media marketing plan in 6 steps

Final Project & Presentation: Social Media Campaign

Link to Google doc: here. (Also on Canvas under Assignments).
Presentations: Think of them as a progress report. Final materials arent due until Dec. 10.
See Google doc for scheduling.
Presentation criteria:

Beginning and end

Organization--proceeds logically
Everyone speaks
Why you chose a scenario.
How you addressed the scenario and why
What you produced or will produce as part of social media campaign (deliverables, documents,
etc.)
Research completed
Less than ten minutes in length
Uses visuals (slides, images, etc.)

Rise of online and app-based dating

Interested in how your experience and views with online dating relate to others? Take this quiz: here.

Rise of online and app-based dating

Online dating and social support for it is at an all-time high. 15% of U.S. adults have used online dating sites or
dating apps. Many online daters enlist their friends in an effort to put their best digital foot forward. Some 22% of online
daters have asked someone to help them create or review their profile.

Social Media and Health

According to the reading for today, And its not just teenagers;
most of us are willing to be much more honest
with our phones than with professionals,
or even with our spouses and partners.
We look up weird symptoms and humiliating
questions on Google with the same ease
that we search for the name of a vaguely
familiar character actor.
Why?

Daily Water
Daily Water is an app that tries to
get you to be more motivated to
drink your required amount of
water.
It gives you a visual of the glasses
of water and you are supposed to
click on it when you drink it.

Social Media and Death

There's something about the idea of a person live-tweeting a parent's death that feels a
little wrong it's using the most casual of platforms to publicly discuss something that's
so deeply personal.
Its not necessarily about the photos, or selfies, or Twitter, or Facebook its not about
those platforms. Its about how we deal with death in a social way, says Jurgenson.
This revulsion, this taboo about talking about death and hiding death, is actually really
new, he says. And what were seeing on social media is a lot of people breaking that
taboo, in interesting ways. Death is part of life, and it can be social.
Look at Scott Simon and Laurie Kilmartins tweets

Social Media and Death (Ghosts in the Machine)

Perhaps the most profound side effect is that death no longer obeys any laws of finality.
When funneled through social media, death lingers longer than a traditional mourning
period might call for. How so?

Work in groups!

For next time:

Enjoy Thanksgiving!
Presentations!