For our project this year, we were assigned to choose our own groups. I found this very beneficial as I knew a few of the lads in my course. I thoroughly liked this idea, as there was no awkwardness in group meetings and we could always rely on each other to get the work done when it needed to be. I grouped up with Eoin O’ Dwyer and Torin McGlynn. We all chose to work under the heading of ‘Social Media for Social Good’. This was a topic in which we were all interested as it is such a heavily debated topic in today’s world.
For our research question, we chose ‘Does Social Media Have a Positive Impact on Society Today?’. We all agreed that this was a good research question as it is such a heavily debated topic. We felt that we would get a lot of mixed responses from it.
As a group, we did the majority of our work on a platform called Miro. This is a platform which lets everyone work simultaneously. It was very handy, as it is easily accessible and allows you work as a group, which is what it is all about.
We also created an anonymous survey for our data collection method, created our literature reviews which then lead to creating our low fidelity app.
For our presentation, we put all of our work together on Miro and decided on making a recording to present. I felt as if all went well, only our literature reviews needed some touching up on. We took note of this and made sure not to make the same mistake again for our final reports.
To conclude, I enjoyed the whole process and learned a lot from it all. If I was to go back and do it all over, I would have broken up our presentation so that we all had a part to say, instead of one person recording it. I thoroughly enjoyed the group work and feel like I have taken away some important aspects of academic writing. This will be very beneficial in the coming years.
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