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A blog for Web Writing Spring 2025

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Original Content Writing 3

How will your research question help you collect data?

My research question is going to help guide what kind of data I am going to collect. Though I intend to collect a lot of data, I want to make sure that I don't collect data that is irrelevant to answering my research question, so that I don't waste time and make the data analysis more difficult than it needs to be. Since I intend to investigate how content's subject matter affects the amount of engagement it gets, relevant data will help me determine the amount of engagement a video gets, as well as data that relates to the subject of the content.

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Original Content Writing 2

How are you determining meaningful data? What method will you use to collect it?

I am intending on collecting a lot of data for my project. I don't want to overdo it but judging from the last project it seems that the more data you have the easier it is to answer your research question as you have more to work with during the analyzing phase. Meaningful data is data that is going to help me to answer my research question. One mark of meaningful data is whether or not it can help gauge audience engagement. This includes views, likes, and comments. Another mark of meaningful content includes information about the subject matter of the video itself, and what type of content the creator is presenting. I will be recording this data in an excel spreadsheet. Some of the data related to subject matter will be more difficult to quantify, but will be determined by me watching the video and recording statistics and observations that I make in the excel sheet.

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Original Content Writing 1

What is meaningful data to answer/address your research question?

My research question is: how does the subject matter of content affect how much engagement the content gets? The data I was planning on collecting includes titles, thumbnails, views, likes, comments, dislikes, the description, the time and date of the post, video length, the amount of comments, and content of subjects and themes in the comments section. These data points are relevant because they can help me gauge how much engagement each piece of content is getting. The difficult part is going to be relating this to the subject matter of the content in a relevant way, and figuring out why certain topics/videos get more engagement from the audience from others.

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Thursday Check in 3/6/2025

@npfannen

What assignment questions do you have that will help you complete the assignment successfully? This is a three part assignment that spans six weeks - how can I help you be successful??

Are there any data points that you recommend collecting from YouTube accounts that one may not think of right away? I'm trying to collect as much data as possible so that I have a lot to work with during the data analysis. I was planning on titles, thumbnails, views, likes, comments, dislikes, the description, the time and date of the post, the amount of comments, and some of the content in the comments section getting the overall tone and topics discussed in the comments section. Is there anything else you would recommend I look at? I was also wondering about YouTube shorts, I was planning on just not recording data for them and only using actual YouTube videos, but do you think it would be beneficial for me to include anything from the shorts?

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Original Content 3

What did you learn about writing a research question that can be answered through social media data + content strategy ideas? How will this help you in Module 5?

During the last project, I learned that writing a research question was more complicated than I originally would have expected. One thing that I did wrong the first time was looking at the content before formulating my research question. In doing so, I began to try to look for trends in the content sort of subconsciously, which affected my research question. This time around I intend to look at as little of the content as possible before coming up with my research question as to not be influenced by trends that I might see before starting the data collection. It is also important to pick a research question that is both fairly broad, so that you have enough to write about with the data that you collect, and also a research question that is interesting to you so that you stay engaged with the project.

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Original Content Writing 2

What did you learn about data analysis from the Module 4 data analysis practice project? How will that help you in module 5?

First and foremost I learned that the more data you collect during that phase of the process, the more information you will have to work with when analyzing different trends and aspects of the data later on in the process. Therefore it is important to collect as much information about the content as you can in the early stages. I also learned that data can be found in unexpected places. You want to look for statistical data and contextual data in ways that you may not initially expect. An example of this from the last project was analyzing what the content of the comments on the posts I was looking at.

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Original Content Post

How are you narrowing your account choices? Walk us through your process of selecting these.

I'm trying to narrow account choices in a number of ways. To begin, I'm trying to analyze accounts within a community that I am familiar with, but not too invested in. At first I was thinking about researching accounts I was really into but after considering the notes about not ruining content that you follow for enjoyment by analyzing them, I decided to go with accounts that I don't know quite as well. I also narrowed down the platforms of the accounts I want to research to Instagram or YouTube. Those are the platforms I'm most familiar with so I think the data collection and analysis will be easier if I use them. I will probably go with YouTube because that is the platform that I use the most and I think it would be most interesting to research.

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Thursday Check in Week Six

@npfannen

I'm pretty into comedy and I was thinking about doing my project using Instagram pages within the standup comedy community. My only concern was appropriateness of the content within a classroom setting. I was thinking about blurring out words within content that I deemed relevant to my project if necessary. Would this be a good way of going about it? Would you recommend using another community entirely? I am familiar with other communities within Instagram so this wouldn't be an issue, I just thought it might be interesting to do my project on pages within the comedy community but don't know how sensitive/cumbersome the censorship component of the project is going to be within a classroom setting. I am just brainstorming on communities to do the project on right now so I am not set on this if it might be an issue.

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Extra Credit Post

This is a youtube channel that I listen to pretty frequently, they narrate horror stories from authors like H.P Lovecraft. I usually listen to it to help me fall asleep, the narrator's voice is relaxing.

[falloniswriting]

Peer Review Request !

This might be a stupid question, but do you think it is okay for me to assert that the emotional component of posts drives engagement since it is part of my analysis of the data? I noticed that celebratory posts, especially graduation announcements, got the most engagement, and I am attributing that to the emotional connection people feel with those moments.

Does this feel like a solid conclusion based on the data, or am I reaching too far? I want to make sure my analysis is backed by the evidence and not just an assumption. Let me know what you think!

[jeebesblog]

I think that is a very valid argument. I noticed some of the same trends when I was doing my analysis too! The only outlier for that argument that I found was the post about one of the professors passing away, which didn't get that much engagement for some reason. Maybe because it was emotionally sadder instead of celebratory? You could maybe touch on why you think this happened in your paper, just a thought!

[ckrall44]

OCW Peer Review Request #1 (2/21/25)

While I was collecting my data, one of the graphs I created about the number of likes on each post has an outlier which has a much higher number of likes than the others. Since this is the graph I made emphasizing a lower number of likes on posts featuring content unrelated to the topic I claimed had the most likes on each post, I wanted to get some feedback on if this particular post, which has 20 likes, is too contradicting and should I make it a point to address this in my analysis?

[jeebesblog]

I think including an outlier is definitely okay! In fact I think an outlier can be interesting to analyze because you can go into reasons why you think that it gained so many more likes than the other post. I would maybe recommend addressing it in some way in your essay, even if you don't want to go into depth about it you might want to at least mention it. The other piece of advice I would have is possibly moving up the y axis in your graph to 25 or 30 if possible. Its just a bit confusing for me at least anyway because the bar goes all the way to the top of the graph and looks like it goes above the 20 mark.

[srschopf]

Original Content Peer Review Request 2

I used this image at the end of my Data Analysis Project. I created it on Canva to tell my readers how data can be used to drive web writing. I think it is a clear and concise visual that well-represents how data can better guide web writers’ decision making. This is not telling them what they should change about their current writing but to collect data that they can then make changes as the data suggests. What do you all think about this visual? Should there be any more or any less? Is this useful or just a waste of space in the paper? 

[jeebesblog]

I think those look great! They are very eye catching and look really good and professional, they also aren't too complex and are easy to understand. My only piece of advice would be to maybe space them out throughout your paper instead of putting them all in one place at the end. For example, if you have a place in your paper where you discuss audience, maybe you could put the audience graphic at that point in your paper instead!

[jeebesblog]

Original Content Peer Review Request One

I am wondering whether or not this graph is clear and easy to understand enough. With this graph I show the correlation between hashtags and likes for the ten posts I analyzed. I feel like it is pretty straightforward and easy to understand, but looks a bit empty. Should I maybe add something to this graph? The one thing I was thinking about doing was labeling each post with a description, instead of just post one, post two, etc. Before submitting this in my final draft I also have to figure out how to remove the column 1 from the legend of the chart as it is not needed.

[emru15]

I think this graph does a good job of what you’re needing it to do and it does look a little empty. Is there a way to add a faint color to the background and maybe bold and add color to the title? Maybe you could try playing some other graph styles that are more compact but still express the information in the way you want.

[jeebesblog]

Those are all great ideas thank you!

[emru15]

Original content peer review

I’m having a a difficult time with the design of the essay. Placement for appeal or necessity? We have to include all ten posts in our essay and I’m wondering what’s the best way to present it within the work?

Is this effective? Is more context required? Should post be placed separately and not bunched together?

[jeebesblog]

From what I understand, we do not have to include actual pictures of all ten posts in the essay. The way I read the instructions, we use pictures of certain posts in the paper to support arguments or show data we have collected. Even though we had to analyze all ten posts, I don't think we have to include pictures of all ten of them in our paper. I really hope that I'm not giving you bad advise on this, you might want to look back at the instructions on the paper for this but that is the way I understood it!

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Original Content Peer Review Request Three

One of the main arguments of my paper is that by looking at the comments of a post, you can tell whether a post is successful or not. Is this sound logic? This is a big point in my paper. My thinking is that even if a post doesn't have that much engagement from likes or that many comments, you can tell from the few comments it has whether the purpose of the post reached the audience or not. An example I used is a post congratulating a student for defending a thesis, and used the comments from her friends supporting her as proof that the intended purpose of the post reached its intended audience, therefore making it successful. Is this a strong enough argument to be a main point in my paper or should I strengthen/ expand on this further?

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Original Content Peer Review Request Two

I'm wondering if the purpose of this graph comes across effectively to the reader of my essay. With this graph, I tried to show how there was no correlation between comments and likes. However, since there is such a low amount of comments compared to the likes on each post, I'm a bit concerned that the point I was trying to make with the graph doesn't really come across that well. Is there enough data for this point to be understood? Is there maybe another way that I could show this in a different form, or perhaps edit the graph in such a way that shows this more effectively. I might be overthinking this, feedback would be much appreciated!

[jeebesblog]

Original Content Peer Review Request One

I am wondering whether or not this graph is clear and easy to understand enough. With this graph I show the correlation between hashtags and likes for the ten posts I analyzed. I feel like it is pretty straightforward and easy to understand, but looks a bit empty. Should I maybe add something to this graph? The one thing I was thinking about doing was labeling each post with a description, instead of just post one, post two, etc. Before submitting this in my final draft I also have to figure out how to remove the column 1 from the legend of the chart as it is not needed.