one project i am undertaking is gathering some online attention through online community sites. i have set up spaces through blogspot, ning.com, myspace.com, and facebook.com. The goal is to branch out to students and to the academic fields of rhet/comp/english/writing programs/communication/arts/technology/multimedia...
through conversations with students, we could predict that the site most visited will be facebook. It has the largest community of student visitors. The "Rutgers Network" alone has 52, 000 or so people on it (students, alum, faculty, etc.). However, it was brought to my attention that students may not choose to become "friends" with Writers House since they would be concerned that content from their pages would somehow become grounds for judgement/punishment on a university level. In other words, they fear being punished for shenanigans or talk of shenanigans. Thus it was suggested that I start a Writers House Group. Students are more likely to join a group than befriend a possible informant.
Because networks are organized around academic institutions, this space opens us to the potential of linking with other institutions who may be enacting visionary spaces such as ours.
However, this raises the question, are there faculty out there creating accounts on facebook (or other community spaces), and looking for Writers House-esque ideas? Or, are we still limited to journal publication to get the word out to Academia?
I plan to obtain student feedback, and observe trends in membership as well as participation on each of these community sites, especially facebook.
I also hope to analyse the relationship between members and multimedia content.
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