Social Media as Practice

MA Social Media

Outline

• Develop practical skills– Web / audio / video/ data etc.

• Stage an event

• Work with clients to produce a social media solution

AssessmentSocial Media ‘Event’ (40% - Deadline Monday 9th May):

• stage an event that will offer social media ‘solutions’ for a particular set of problems, ‘gaps’ in market or contexts.

• Your contribution to the event will comprise this assessment.

Social Media Prototype (60%- Deadline Friday 3rd June):

• Professional Realisation of individual social media protoypes/product

• responding to feedback from a ‘client’.

• Module Theme• Skills Audit• Kathakbox.co.uk

Module theme

Last year: Police and Social Media (http://eventwith.me/authority2/)

Module Theme

What’s your theme?

Last semester:• Hyperlocal• Open Data• Community and Big Society

Events in Egypt?...

Module theme

• For next week:– Prepare a short (3 slides?) presentation on ideas

for a theme– Give some thought to the type of event you might

put on– Give examples of different formats

Social Media as Practice - Week one lecture intro