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This document provides discussion questions related to social media topics such as cyberbullying, viral videos, and potential project ideas. It asks how to define social media, examples of how people use it, how it began, factors that influence trust in online information, digital footprints, analyzing intent versus meaning online, and more. The questions cover understanding and using social media responsibly and effectively.

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This document provides discussion questions related to social media topics such as cyberbullying, viral videos, and potential project ideas. It asks how to define social media, examples of how people use it, how it began, factors that influence trust in online information, digital footprints, analyzing intent versus meaning online, and more. The questions cover understanding and using social media responsibly and effectively.

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Social Media DBAs - Collected Questions!

Milestone 2
1.
Discuss cyberbullying - What did you learn about cyberbullying? What are the
right ways to handle a cyberbullying situation? Are there and wrong ways to handle
this?
2.
Discuss viral videos - What is a viral video? What do you think is the golden
ingredient in a video going viral? What other things can go viral on the internet?
3.
Discuss project ideas - What is your passion? How can we tie this to Social
Media? Will this reach your social network? If not, how else can we get them
involved?

1. How do you define Social Media?


2. What are the things people use Social Media for? Provide 3
examples.
a. Keeping up with friends.
b. Keep up with your favorite band, celebrities, politician, and latest
trends.
c. Latest social causes.
d. Up to the minute political news.
3. How did Social Media begin?
a. First email in 1971.
4. What would make a person trust information on the web?
a. The source. Depending on how credible the source is.
5. What are digital footprints?
a. The track of your virtual posts, pictures.
6. Provide 2 examples for people, other than yourself, who control your
digital footprints.
a. Friends (posting pictures)
b. Peers/ Colleagues
c. Family members
d. Websites, political parties, interest groups.
7. What should you use to decipher weather information on the web
has an agenda or ulterior motives?
a. Knowledge and experience
8. Explain the difference between intentions vs. meaning on social
media avenues.
a. Anything you say or do on social media can be documented and
interpreted in many different ways.
9. What have companies done to bloggers and why?

a. Pay them to advertise their product because people trust the


bloggers.
10.
Do you believe its possible to get an honest review from a
blogger who has received free stuff?

11.Whats the difference between your real identity and your social media
identity?
a. You can make your social media identity into whatever you want
because you can create your identity when using social media.
12.How can you change your social media identity?
a. Set rules for yourself.
b. Decide what your values on SM are.
c. Selecting the kinds of messages and photos you share on SM avenues.
13.Exactly what is cyber bullying?
a. Harassment
b. Denigration- rumors meant to ruin a persons reputation?
c. Outing- shaming or embarrassing pictures
d. Trickery
e. Exclusion
f. Cyber stalking.
14.Can you think of a {recent} event on the news where cyber bulling was the
cause of the issue?
15.How can you control your digital footprints?
a. Take control of your reputation- make sure there is more good than bad
on the web.
b. Stay on top of things, search your name often.
c. Keep track of photos.
d. Think before you comment.
e. Secure everything. Check your privacy settings.

16.

What does going viral mean?


a. Online content that is going around quickly. Quicker than quick!
17.
What makes something go viral?
a. Worthy of being shared.
b. Give your audience a reason to share.
c. Give your audience an easy way to share the content.
d. Incentives to share.
18.
What was your social media identity?
Questions for 2.05:
Ask what their identity is, steps to take when dealing with a cyber-bully, what
is a viral video and what types of things go viral. What is a digital footprint and
how can it affect our lives positively and negatively. What the results of the
passion survey and what direction they want to go with on their project

Milestone 4

What success did you experience during the collaboration?


What failures/setbacks did you encounter during the collaboration?
What is one thing you are going to take away from this class?
How are businesses using social media?
1. Do you believe Social Media makes people more or less social? Why or why not?
2. How did Brian Sidlauskas (the video of the fish guy) use Social Media for his
research?
a. He was a fish scientist researching a fish that can only be found in Guyana
and he wanted information about the name of the fish so he posted a
picture of the fish on his Facebook and when he checked his feed in the
morning, he had the name and random facts about the fish, helping him
complete his research.
3. What
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

are things people should never post on social media?


Illegal activity
Confidential info
Being too specific about your whereabouts
Dont lie, cheat or plagiarize.
Dont rely on privacy settings.

4. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

are some of the ways social media has changed the world?
Tim Scapillato- the running guide tour for the blind.
Restoring faith in humanity.
Creating community.
Doing good goes viral.

Ask how they feel their project went. What made is successful and would they
do anything different. What is slacktivism and hacktivism (those are funny
words!) Tell me about the two businesses that used social media. One used it
to help their business and one used it to hurt it. What is one thing that stood
out in the class that they are going to take with them now that they are done.
Explain. Overall do they think that social media is making us more or less
social as a whole.

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