Title your reading reflection using the following format: [Reading Reflection#] – [mm/dd] – [Your First Name, Last Name]
The goal of these readings is to stimulate your critical thinking about designing and implementing a data science project and eventually coming up with a stellar project proposal. While writing your reflections, you will not just summarize the paper but think about what additional questions the paper enables, how is it relevant to modern digital social environments, give examples, talk about your experiences if any, be creative. Reading reflections should be within one page (roughly within 600 words if you are using 12pt font). You won’t be penalized if you write more, but being succinct is another great writing skill which you should aim to cultivate in this course.
The goal of these readings is to stimulate your critical thinking about designing and implementing a data science project and eventually coming up with a stellar project proposal. While writing your reflections, you will not just summarize the paper but think about what additional questions the paper enables, how is it relevant to modern digital social environments, give examples, talk about your experiences if any, be creative. Reading reflections should be within one page (roughly within 600 words if you are using 12pt font). You won’t be penalized if you write more, but being succinct is another great writing skill which you should aim to cultivate in this course.
You do not need to summarize the full paper, but you need to reflect on what additional questions the work enables. Does this help you think about your next big project? What will that be? Does it help you think about new ideas, new ways of thinking about your daily online life? What other questions the paper makes you think? What else the paper is not answering or is concerning or is just intriguing?
Most importantly, a reader while glancing at your reflection should be able to easily spot these questions. So use bold, italics, bullet points or other means of highlighting them. NOTE the stress on REFLECTION. If you simply summarize the paper without any reflection, you will be automatically scored zero.
This is an individual assignment and work submitted should be written solely by you. Here are some great examples of a reflection on the paper Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities written by students in a prior course offering (example 1, example 2, example 3). I also like the following examples reflections on “Partisanship and the search for engaging news”, example 4, example 5. All these reflections pose exciting new questions that could be start of a cool project. What would yours be, based on what you read in the first few weeks of class?