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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.

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Hello, My name is J.D. Ochsner I'm a 21 year old senior from a little town called Roseland, located 15 minutes away from Hastings Nebraska.  I grew up on my family's farm, we raise cattle, and sheep, we also grow corn alfalfa and soybeans. I have spent most of my life working on the farm and I plan on returning to it when I graduate from college, which should be in 2 semesters. when I'm home I enjoy working on old tractors, working with my cattle and working on my 1980 chevy luv that I drive back and forth from Lincoln (its a hunk of crap). I have one sister, she is 25, married, and is an extension educator for Nuckolls, Thayer, and Clay counties. My mother owns a store in Hastings where they sell craft goods, beads and fabric, and she also works in the county extension office as a 4-H assistant. With a family that is so involved in extension and 4-H, 4-H was a very important part of my life growing up, I was very involved with showing cattle, sheep, and various clubs. I'm a very active person, I have a hard time just sitting and doing nothing, which absolutely drives my girlfriend nuts!

I wright because... well typically I don't, I don't write as a hobby, I don't typically enjoy writing, so other than scientific reports, and essays, I don't really write. I write because I want to convey to my instructors that I know the mode of action for the common chemical 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is the chemical replicates auxin (plant growth hormone), and essentially the plant grows itself to death.

To me a community means, a group of people who are interconnected, weather it be threw location being the community that you live in or work in, it can be a community of like minded individuals, or maybe a group of people of the same class or tier. Being a part of a community means to me that you help each other out, you are there for one another, and you feel a certain bond with each other. I like to think that I'm part of the Agricultural community, the UNL community, the East campus community and the Roseland community. These communities came from my chosen profession, my school where I attend, my group of peers that I associate with, and the the community that I originally come from.  They are all communities, because they all fit at least one of the criteria I had previously listed. Writing plays a role in all of the communities that I am a part of, because at least on the most basic level they use writing as a tool to convey knowledge.