claudia

artist + + cat lover

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HTWG: how will your audience (content creators) influence the design of your HTWG?

My audience will influence the design of my HTWG because I want to be able to reach out to fellow artistic content creators that are online. Content creation online is like a community, there is a sort of community for every niche there is. To reach out and be able to become a part of that community is very important - so that is what is influencing the way I go to design my HTWG.

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HTWG: what matters about your audience?

My audience matters because I am an artist that wants to gain traction online and build a consumer base. What matters to me is how I can reach out to the audience and what they would want to see me post. Having an audience means I would have a good outreach and also have more potential to sell commissions of art or sell personal art to others, which is a main source of income for digital artists nowadays.

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HTWG: What will be the hardest part of content creation?

I think the hardest part of the sample content creation for the How To Write Guide will be coming up with the material and making it seem like a real post online. I think I will try to base it off of my research question about artists on social media as that is something I am familiar with, so I might be able to make realistic sample content from that knowledge.

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Dr P. Check In

What assignment questions do you have?

I am a little confused on the created content for the How to Write Guide. Is that our Tumblr posts or our Content Analysis Project? Or is it something completely different that we are creating for the sole purpose of the How to Write Guide? I’m referring to mostly 3 and 4 because I am not quite sure what specifically it is talking about. @npfannen

[kelsville]

OG 4.3

I think that writing a research question can be hard for people who don't care about what they will be researching or for those who don't know much and don't know what to ask, that's me. I don't feel that I understand web writing and data analysis enough to understand what I should be wanting to research and what I should be finding. I also really don't like to assume or make educated guesses on what others are thinking or why people do the things that they do so overall these projects have been super difficult for me to do and to understand.

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I relate with you on the premise of not liking to assume or make educated guesses - especially on assignments! I like it when I am told at least a basic structure of what I am supposed to be doing. I think maybe the key is to try to let loose a little and allow for that creative flexibility.

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user experience analysis - who are we as users of tumblr?

As users of tumblr, we are sort of like ants in a colony. We are all providing posts for the big picture / scheme of all things. We have so much freedom on here, though, so we are not all the same but we have the same freedoms / limitations in order to be able to express ourselves on here. We have the option to write what we want, or post pictures along with it. We can reply to others and reblog others. As users of tumblr we are a community of expression and learning about others.

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how are you narrowing your account choices?

I follow so many artists on Instagram it’s not even funny. I will follow because I like an art style, or just because they post art of an interest I have. I chose some artists I follow that haven’t been popping up in my feed as much. I really like their artwork and I wish to be able to create similar stuff, so if I research them I think subjecting myself to them will help me long term with my goal.

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what digital space are you planning to focus on?

I am planning to focus on Instagram because that is one I am most familiar with. I go on it a lot out of all of the other social medias and platforms out there, so I have a great amount of people I follow in order to pick and choose for the project. I have already established a specific group of people and things that I follow, so I decided to go with Instagram for that reason.

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what assignment questions do you have that will help you complete the assignment successfully?

I just wonder what the end product is supposed to look like. I am a little confused on the graphics part, like are we supposed to have something specific or just make it fun looking and interesting? What comes to my mind is the “corporate art” just because I guess the connections between that and social media.

@npfannen

[saffronhinton]

Peer Review Share 1

Here is the first paragraph of my final paper. I'm wondering if its too formal sounding for the topic and the target audience. "For my data analysis paper, I decided to go with my own TikTok account. I went with this account because I’m curious about how my posts do well and don’t do well in the algorithm and what might be the reasons for that. I also figured that doing my own account could give me the motivation to put more effort into this project."

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It does not seem too formal! I do want to point out the one sentence “I’m curious about how my posts do well and don’t do well in the algorithm and what might be the reasons for that,” as it seems it is a bit of a long sentence. You could try breaking it up a little bit?

[saffronhinton]

Peer Review Share 2

Here is the data that I have collected for my project. Am I covering enough useful information or should I look for more data to use?

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Yes all that data looks useful ! I would say to spread out the likes, comments and shares, though. It is a little hard to read and comprehend when it looks like it is in the form of a Day/Month/Year if you know what I mean.

[ad-designs-21]

Design Element Help!

For my data analysis chart I used my last five posts and looked at the amount of likes and comments. I also included a note how if there were two photos posted the same day just a little later than the first, the second photo got less likes than the first photo. I also noted that each photo had the same people in and they were tagged. I think this attracts more people to the photo since someone is tagged. Feedback on if I should add more detail on the patterns I saw wood be great!

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I would maybe just say make the boxes a little more even with each other ? That’s all I can figure and maybe make the images of the posts bigger (It could also be trick of the eye because it’s a picture of your computer screen).

[armstrong-web-writing-blog]

Peer Review Post 2/2

Above are two rows from my data chart, featuring data collected from ENWL Instagram posts. In the "notes" section, I noted what I thought was most important. My notes generally highlight aspects of the post that the followers and the creator would be proud to be associated with. Do you think there are additional important descriptions that I could add to the notes section?

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I would maybe add an explanation of why the notes are important in terms of the account? You did that with the first one but the second you could say it is important because it brings the faculty and students together.

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This part sort of goes with the image I put in my other peer review post. It explains the image I have but I want to change it into a graphic. Does it seem like it explains that information well enough?

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How would I be able to create a visual diagram sort of thing with this kind of information? Having multiple MU oriented accounts following/interacting with the account I was researching.

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“as you are collecting data and analyzing- what patterns are emerging? why?”

I find that as I am collecting data and analyzing it from the Ville English World Language instagram account, I see that the interactions are mostly from Millersville students. This is not really a surprise to me as it is what I expected as a fellow Millersville student. It just makes sense that an account that highlights students and faculty of a certain department within Millersville would get traction with students of Millersville. We see that mostly the posts get likes, which also makes sense to me since I follow a few Millersville oriented accounts and students do not really post comments, but instead like and (I assume, because I see peers do it) share to their stories and such.

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“share an example of a data piece you recorded that surprised you”

This post only had 20 likes, which surprised me because I feel like events on campus are more of the popular kind of posts. Maybe that is also a bias from me, though, as I used to enjoy campus events no matter what the main general theme of them was. I think the sense of community was what I enjoyed the most about them. Other posts on this account that got more likes were ones with actual students in them. I feel like while that does make sense, the actual event itself is what brings the students together. Instagram does not allow the viewer to see exactly what time stamp this was posted at, so maybe if it was posted early morning of April 26, I assume many students are night owls (again, maybe just pushing my bias onto this assumption as I am a night owl) and that is why it got less likes than other posts? I think that the lack of data we are able to access as a viewer of the account definitely affects how we interpret the data.