day 7

Ok so I got on earlier today and worked on my site for about an hour and I am hoping to get back on later to finish up...so pretty much what I have done is the same ol same ol as far as writing reviews for some of the shows that I like, but one exciting thing is people are finally making me feel more at home so to speak as far as them giving my reviews high fives and things of that nature. Things are finally starting to look up and I can see how they form a community within this site. Well other than looking at what other people wrote and watching a show or two that is pretty much all I have done today.

Day 6

Ok...so it has been a while since I have been on my site, so when I finally got on again I worked for about 2 hours just catching up on everything. I started out looking at my profile and guess what?!?!?! i have 6 friends!! yay...it has taken a while, but it is getting better with each time i get on. They also did a little changing on the site to make it easier for people who have just started to get on and look through everything thing, so I thought that was pretty neat, because I suggested it. After that I started writing some more reviews and just getting peoples opinions on different shows. I also wrote in the forum for the class paper to see if anybody could help me out, and I did get a few comments although I wish I had more. lol...I am also now at 95 points which isn't very many so that is kind of sad, but now that I am going to working on it again hopefully I can get more soon :)

Diana Carlin

Diana Carlin came to visit our class today and she was talking about her research on political focus groups. She started her research in 1992 and every election year since she sets up a focus group, and then those finds go to Washington. she started talking about the differences between online and face to face interactions and she said a lot of it depended on having a good moderator. she when on to talk about some interesting findings, such as people like to talk with others about politics. She said we have been taught to not talk about them or religion, but here in the focus group people can actually talk about it. People can also see the differing opinions and maybe see some things from another light. She went on to talk about consistent results when looking at the leader in the country. a few we talked about included; a good communicator, appearance,nonverbal cues, character issue, and empathy.