Homework 12

1. design a new facebook group of which the focus is a SOCIAL ISSUE affecting African Americans- date rape, drugs, HBCU campus life, etc). you may belong to the group but the group may not be about you. Students are expected to focus on problems and issues that they believe have an impact on the survival and propagation of African Americans.

2. when designing and creating your facebook group, seek and receive feedback from other people. consider talking to people who you think would join such a group; consider talking to the skeptics. seek and speak with more than a few people but not too many. above all, listen to what they say.

3. after carefully considering your feedback and paying special attention to the elements of social network sites discussed in Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship, http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html create your facebook group.

4. once you have created your facebook group, design an outreach strategy that results in people (or "fans") joining your group. your goal with respect to fans may be size, niche, geographic diversity, or anything else - but you must have a goal and you must design an outreach strategy to meet that goal.

5. in no more than a one-page single-spaced essay, explain your
I. facebook group
II. your goal
III. your outreach strategy
IV. and the outcomes

rules:
a) be prepared to demo your work during class. if you have no work to demo, you will receive a grade of F; and
b) your one page paper is due in class on the day you present as a handout for your peers - be sure to photocopy enough for each of your classmates. no late work accepted.

hints:
a) work on/with a group/social issue that actually means something to you; and
b) the most important element of this project is learning to listen to other people


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