Exercise 3: Share/Revise your own many-to-many solutions

Form a group of 3-4 students and:

• Share your solutions with each other.
• Discuss advantages and disadvantages. Do not waste resources. Steer toward the lowest tech, lowest energy solution that will work.
• Post both your original and your new/revised solutions here and later on your wordpress site.

Problems

Newspapers are losing subscribers and ads

The oceans are dying

Religions are divisive

Visual art is too static

Student films are always set in dorms

Stock photographs cost too much

Educational books are boring

You never have a camera when you need it

The spatial dimensions of sound are underappreciated

Centralized economies are unstable

Now your preliminary task for this course is to identify a problem or issues that the social technologies of New Media can address

Answer:

The oceans are dying
Someone must take the time to make some sort of a youtube video on this crisis. YouTube is viral and can spread word almost faster than any other social media or news sight. Make a website that shows you a map and on that map, there are links that you can click on, (links would be in the form of stars on the map, precisely on the different oceans, gulfs, etc.) and learn all about the oceans issues. You can click the “share” button and it will automatically go to your facebook page, showing all your friends the concerns for the oceans. Also on this website you can donate, whether it’s five dollars or five hundred, to helping repair the oceans and also help with research. This is when social media takes over, and really does good for the world.