In this seminar-style class, you will investigate several academic readings, write your reflections where you will not just summarize the papers 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.
These are intended to facilitate and assess understanding of the reading materials. 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? What other questions the paper makes you think? What else the paper is not answering or is concerning or is just intriguing?
Again this is an individual assignment and work submitted should be written solely by you. 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. Here is a great example of a reflection written by my colleague, Prof. Kurt Luther.
NOTE: For days when you have two paper assignments, you are free to either combine them and write one reflection or keep them separate and write two separate reflections. For grading purposes you MUST submit a single post though.
Title of your post: Reflection [#No] – [Date mm/dd]- [Your Full Name as it appears on Canvas].
Example: Reflection #1 – [1/18] – [Tanushree Mitra]
