My group chose YouTube, because we thought it would be cool to actually use the platform to give the presentation. Honestly, I learned so much about YouTube during the time of researching different statistics. This platform has come such a long way from when it came out. Here's the link to the video: Youtube Vid .
As I shared the link above, we did a voice over talking about each statistic, which worked well when presented because we let our project speak for us. Just in case anyone had questions after, we could still answer them as well. Our photo for the video was hilarious to do, as we were making fun of videos that try to click bait people. Which, this is very popular on YouTube to do as, they try to use an image of a person with a shocked expression on their face and some cool looking object. We did just that and it was a great intro opener when presented too.
One thing that I liked about doing the project was learning about the statistics like, how many people from different countries watch YouTube. Also, researching about various age groups using YouTube was cool to figure out as I never really noticed this set of data before. Trust me watch the video and you'll learn things, you thought you knew about, just like me.
While we chose our topics, we did separate projects that dealt with the same platforms, but used it telling stories using technology. Before officially working on this project, we checked out various works that dealt with using a platform to tell a story or send a message. One that pointed out to me was called "blackness for sale" by Keith Obadike. He used the platform eBay to figuratively and literally sell his "blackness".
I think this was a clear statement about how African Americans are viewed in america. Most think that being black is on the outside, which is why he seems to be selling as if it's an object. Like for instance, he says that this blackness can be used to create black art. This seems like a subliminal message to the art world, that if it is black art its separate from the art world.
Another that pointed out to me was, when he includes that the blackness is used to create fear or instill fear, which is another stereotype that America has created. Even today we still have problems with African Americans being judged just because they are falsely accused by others.
Overall, this was a interesting piece and it had so many points that dealt with problems that we still face in America today. Also, I hope people really didn't try to actually buy his blackness because I'm seeing a couple bids on it. If it is real then I wouldn't be shocked, it reminded me how selling his blackness relates to how African Americans were auctioned off during slavery. As I said before, this has so many messages in it that I could write a book on why this piece is so important.
On the other hand, after finishing the social media group project, we had our own projects to work on. I chose google maps for my project, which dealt with the same topic I did before, anime. My plan was to choose various anime and try to find where their creator was from. As expected most of the anime I love, the creators lived in Japan, so I titled it "The "Nani" heard throughout Japan (If you don't know, "Nani" means "what" in Japanese).
I researched and used where the creators were from to make it easier to use an actual place. I did this because my story is about a character who is a big fan of anime and one day he is chosen to save several of his favorite anime's worlds. In this case, each creator of the world has gone bad and they are threatening to ruin the world that was once precious to them.
For each location, I included an image for each and a song to really make it more immersive/interactive when reading the action scenes. I inhabited that from watching anime, whenever the action scene came, music was in the background intensifying the moment. The world of anime is so cool and amazing. Here is just a sneak peak of my project that is in the works.
