Social and Cultural Issues of Interactive Digital Media ?(KIT311/KIT611)
Semester 1, 2019
Assignment 2 (individual) worth 20% of your total marks
-Awareness-
As per unit outline, this project may be approved as group project upon request in which case the work would be marked as group project i.e., the outcome should reflect the number of students and demonstrate a benefit resulting from tackling this as group work.
Instructions:
For Assignment 1 you looked at mobile phones and explored two different perspectives, namely utopian and dystopian futures. For Assignment 2 you need to focus on the damages that are allegedly afflicted upon humanity by social media.
The Hacker Noon blog post -I’m a digital addict and so are you- is a good starting point but you need to read widely to make your arguments and to back your claims such that they meet academic writing standards!
Use the different perspectives that we discussed in the lecture post3 utopia/dystopia to explain how the alleged damages eventuate and also to explore how they could possibly be mitigated.
Unleash your creativity! Assignments need to cover the different perspectives however I am open to non-traditional ways of presenting your findings using forms of expression other than written text. Your assigment may consist of mixed modes such as a written part and another part presented in different media. I am fairly open re formats but please check with me if you think about presenting your finding as say, interpretative dance.
Written up as an essay this assignment should consist of 2,500-3,000 words for individual students (scaled up in the case of groupwork). Any non-text part needs to reflect a contribution similar to the textual part that it replaces.
Written parts should be in standard English, free of grammar and spelling errors, and set in a 12 pt font. Referencing should follow Harvard style.
Submit your essay to the Assignment 2 drop box on MyLO by the due date. Please include name and student ID in the document! Check with the lecturer if there is no easy way to dropbox your work.
Marking will follow the KIT311 / KIT611 evaluation criteria posted on MyLO.
KIT311 / KIT611 Semester 1, 2019
Assignment 2 Marking Criteria (v1.0)
Criteria
Weighting
Related Learning
Outcomes
Background
(e.g. perspectives)
40% 1,2, 3
Framing / explanations / suggestions
How do the alleged damages eventuate?
Is there anything that we can do about it? (covering the first question is sufficient; the second is an opportunity to go beyond!)
40% 1,2, 3
Academic writing
(referencing, quality of sources, coherence)
20% 6, 7,8, 9
KIT311 / KIT611 Assignment 2 (Semester 1, 2019)
Marking Criteria Sheet
Background
HD DN CR PP NN
In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you
have produced an insightful, well- thought-out essay that demonstrates deep knowledge of the different perspectives have produced an informative essay that demonstrates substantial knowledge of the different perspectives have produced an essay that demonstrates sound knowledge of the different perspectives have produced an essay that demonstrates reasonable knowledge of the different perspectives have produced an essay that fails to demonstrate
adequate knowledge of the different perspectives
Framing / explanations / suggestions
HD DN CR PP NN
In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you
have produced an insightful, well- thought-out essay that demonstrates deep knowledge of how the phenomenon have produced an informative essay that demonstrates substantial knowledge of the phenomenon have produced an essay that demonstrates good knowledge of the phenomenon have produced an essay that demonstrates reasonable knowledge of the phenomenon have produced an essay that fails to demonstrate adequate knowledge of
the phenomenon
KIT311 / KIT611 Assignment 2 (Semester 1, 2019)
Academic writing
HD DN CR PP NN
In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you In your submission, you
have included a number of relevant references from quality sources. Reasoning and referencing are flawless have included a number of relevant references from quality sources. Reasoning and referencing are by large flawless have included a number of relevant references from quality sources.The reasoning makes sense and there are few mistakes in the referencing have included relevant references from quality sources.The reasoning makes sense even though there may be some gaps and there are some mistakes in the referencing failed to include relevant references and/or the quality of the sources used is poor and/or there are quite a few mistakes in the referencing and/or there are major gaps in the reasoning
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