Your New Media Ecology 

STEP 1 –> 

For the next 5 days (Friday 2/16 – Tuesday 2/20) pay attention and take notes about all the new media devices/platforms you use throughout your day. Keep a running list of: devices, platforms, apps, and website. If you use a device/app/platform or visit a website 2 or more times, add it to the list.

By Tuesday, February 20th: Complete Digital Ecology/Networked Devices Assessment

Create Post #4 to list all New Media and related items, etc. Categorize the post as “Digital Ecology List“

STEP 2 –> 

By Tuesday, February 27th:  Create Post #5 (*PRIVATE REFLECTION*): Digital Ecology Reflection: reflect on your assessment and ecology map.  Categorize the post as “Digital Ecology Reflection”

This paper should be an analysis of your own digital media ecology. What do I mean by a digital media ecology? Read this article to learn about and define “an ecology” and use this information to describe your new media ecology. Your paper should use a personal narrative to discuss how new media shapes your everyday life and you opinion about the internet of things that you live within.

Address the following questions:

• What role does new media and the internet of things play in your own life? 
• What insights did you gain from this tracking your new media use?
• What do you think about your new media use in light of our Internet of Things debate?
• How might this inform your future engagements with New Media?

Additional Requirements

Your post will:

• reference the ecology reading above*
• reference at least 1 other class reading*
• contain AT LEAST 3 hyperlinks to outside sources.
• contain AT LEAST 1 other pieces of media (image, video, audio)

*Use these references to describe how you understand and experience time, place, social interactions, culture, the economy, and politics through new media.