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One thing that went well during our presentation, was the class seemed to understand what we were talking about, and they got "hands on experience" working on their Action campaign plan, and David did a good job with finding and revising the template. One thing that didn't go as well as it could have is I didn't really get to be as active in planning the lesson as I would have liked to be, probably because I wasn't very knowledgeable about Skate For Change as Matt and he kind of spearheaded the project.

Roles:
Matt: Leader
David: Revised and found the template
Andrew: Filled out the lesson plan worksheet
Me: Middle man (emailing Nicole)

Grades:
Matt: +
David: +
Andrew: +
Me: +

Text for project 2

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2014/05/academe_an_academic_blog_reveals_common_prejudice_among_professors_against.html

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The othered community I have chosen is Farmers. Farmers make up less than 1% of the world’s population. While some may say farming is a profession and people chose to be a part of that group, but it is a life style and it is in our blood. Many farming families are at least third generation, and the children who grow up to be farmers are definitely raised into it. The reason I say farmers are othered is because we talk differently, we think differently, we are looked at differently. Farmers are often portrayed as “hicks” “rednecks” “plow boys” it is often assumed that we are less educated and less educated than other people. Often when I tell people that my profession is after I get out of school is going to be farmer I am often met with “Then why did you go to school” as if I would benefit less from a college education then they would. (Sorry that that turned into a little bit of a rant!)

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During the first part of the football podcast, there was the example of the Carlisle Indian School, were the goal was to assimilate these Native American children into whit culture, by essentially turning these Indian kids white, with the way they talked, the way they dressed, the way they conducted themselves and by essentially stripping them of their heritage. He was trying to take this completely different group of people and make them fall into the social constructs that he deemed correct. This forceful assimilation while being cruel did introduce this group of young Indian men to the game of football where they had tons of success and showed the American public even for a brief moment that the Indians were not less than the white men, they were the same. Although this was not an Idea that permanently changed for Americans, it did show that there was a possibility that one day the Native Americans might be seen as equal.

I think that there a lot of situations that social construction is a very real idea, one of the biggest examples is gender separation. Coming from a sixth generation farm family I have been raised with a more traditional sense of gender roles, I have always been raised that there are specific “man jobs” and specific “woman jobs” such as men do more physical labor for example feeding cows, doing field work, fixing things when they break, and being the primary bread winner. Whereas women are traditionally confined to laundry, cleaning, cooking, and caring and nurturing children. Although my mother would be the first person to tell you she can do anything a man can do and would have no problem putting him in his place which I feel is something that is much better received than it would have been 50 years ago, but thought time and as some of those social constraints kind of disappear, it is more welcome for strong independent women who speak their mind and can do anything they put their mind to. 

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Introduction:

During this part of my paper I will introduce Katie, and the type of social media that she uses. I will use this part of my paper to kind of foreshadow what will happen later in the paper. Also in the introduction I will show how Katie falls into or loosely represents a larger demographic (undergraduate girls who are underclassmen at the University of Nebraska Lincoln) like Buck does in her article "Ronnie’s experiences represent common ones for undergraduate students across the United States. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, as of August 2011, 83% of 18–29 year-olds used a social network site (Madden, 2012)."

Methods:

This part of the paper is devoted to showing how I collected my data, and observations. Then I will explain what made me choose the data I used to represent Katie in my paper.

Results:

This portion of the paper is where I will give the data that I have collected, show examples of some tweets that Katie has used and explain why I think it is relevant to the assignment.  

Conclusion: 

This portion of the paper is where I "wrap the paper up in a nice little bow" I will make sure that I have answered all the questions I have presented earlier in the paper and make sure no one has any questions or misunderstandings after they have finished reading the paper.  

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Some of the questions that I think ask include: What do you typically use social media for? Who do you follow? Who follows you? What kind of things do you like to see on your news feed? How do you feel about negative posts? How do you feel about political posts? Do you ever post political things? How long have you had this form of social media? How often do you post? How often do you look at your news feed, compared to the amount of posts you have?  

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Social media can be a very versatile thing, it can be used as a to connect with people, it can be used to get your opinion out there, it can also be a tool for promoting something (i.e. businesses, charities, or your own work). For example Roxane Gay tweeted a picture of the acknowledgments page of her novel and it opened her novel up to new markets that would have been otherwise unavailable to her. She created a community for herself by opening herself up to new readers, essentially she created a community of fans and other people who appreciate her work on line. Also the woman behind #WhyIStayed created a community of people who had been in abusive relationships. I find this very touching that she got so many other people to speak up because domestic violence is not a crime that is reported in most instances, also it is not something the victims like to talk about; these people all stepped forward, told their story, and hoped it would help someone who was in the situation that they were in knowing people would look at them differently, talk to them differently, gossip, about them, and treat them differently.

I am on twitter I follow a lot of agriculture related twitter pages, a lot of unl and college based pages, and I also follow a few of my closer friends (most of them from college) on twitter. I find myself much choosier on who I associate myself with on twitter than I used to be when I had Facebook, because I didn’t need to be friends with every mother of my classmates’ and I don’t need to see baby/engagement pictures of people who I may have met twice, or other things that don’t really affect me but still blew up my news feed. (Sorry for that little rant…) Discourse shapes the communities because I have something in common with all the people in these communities whether it be that we share a passion, or we go to the same university, or we are close friends (and I’d like to think I have a fair amount in common with all of my close friends.) I usually enjoy sharing discourse with people who I have something in common with, but maybe that’s just because I really like to talk. I imagine that these communities became communities threw shared thoughts, feelings, or beliefs, also in other situations proximity to the other community members was a discerning factor in how these communities came about.