Time limit: A maximum of 10 minutesWord limit: A maximum of 800 words on submitted slidesPurpose: To present your developing research and ideas ahead of your social media project.Details of task:...

Your presentation should consist of five sections that you will submit as a PDF on Moodle. You can use the provided template to get started. 1. Subject, scenario, and profile Choose one of the subjects and scenarios (listed above, or make your own) and create a social media profile for them on the platform of your choice that includes a username and short biography. Make sure you give some details about your chosen scenario (for example, if your scenario is “articulating a political viewpoint” — what's your viewpoint? How will you articulate it? Who might agree or disagree with you?) 2. Academic sources Identify at least four (4) academic sources that relate to your chosen subject, and briefly explain how they will contribute to your social media project. You must provide full Harvard or APA references for each source. It's important to not just summarise what the source is about, but make connections from what you've read to your own social media project. 3. Non-academic sources Identify at least two (2) non-academic sources that relate to your chosen subject, and briefly explain how they will contribute to your social media project. 4. Key concept There are four (4) key concepts to choose fro think your project best connects with, and expl. list, or one you've found yourself. 5. Planned social media posts this unit: Audience, authenticity, algorithms, and resistance. Choose the one that you this connection. Include a reference to your key concept. This can be from the reading For your social media project, which social media posts are you planning to include; a Twitter thread? An Instagram caption? A YouTube video? A TikTok? List the posts you will be creating in this section — they should make sense for the subject and scenario you have chosen. Marking Criteria | /100 | HD Research, referencing, and critical ‘engagement with sources Justification of social media subject, Project proposal rubric D Cc Pp, N 35 | Sophisticated engagement Proficient engagement with | Generally clear engagement | Critical engagement with mostly | Academic and non-academic with well-researched academic | well-researched academic with mostly appropriate inappropriate academic and ‘sources inappropriate or and non-academic sources and non-academic sources | academic and non-academic | non-academic sources lacks lacking; no meaningful demonstrating a high degree | that will provide strong sources that will make a insight and depth; makes limited | connections between the of insight, depth, and critical support to the social media satisfactory contribute to the | connections with the social sources and the social medic judgement that will enrich the | project. social media project. media project. project. social media project. Referencing is generally Some errors in referencing | Referencing lacks consistency | Referencing is consistently Referencing contains no accurate. noted, but a good effort to and contains multiple errors. inaccurate or not attempted. errors. attribute each source. 25 | Sophisticated presentation of | Social media subject, Social media subject, Social media subject, scenario, | Social media subject, scenar an engaging social media scenario, and proposed scenario, and proposed and proposed posts presented and proposed posts are subject, scenario, and posts presented well. Clearly posts presented ina adequately. Connections to the missing or irrelevant. No PowerPoint Presentation My subject is the activist My scenario is articulating a political viewpoint Scenario details: Fed up with seeing women, non-binary, trans, and gender non-conforming bodies censored on Instagram, Frieda raises awareness of the restrictive platform policy. She encounters backlash from other Instagram users. Username: @sexpositivitynow Name: Frieda Nipple | she/her Bio: ALL bodies should be welcome on Instagram. Love my dogs, reality TV, and a ridiculously oversized scarf or three. Location: Naarm/Melbourne Website: https://sexpositivesocialmedia.org/ 2,339 posts | 4,362 Following | 9,174 Followers TIP: You may want to include platform-specific features in your profile to help communicate your subject. This one has a circular profile image, pronouns, and post and follower counts, as they are norms on Instagram TIP: Get specific with your scenario. The most effective scenarios tend to have some kind of conflict in them. Academic source 1 Are, C 2021, ‘The Shadowban Cycle: An Autoethnography of Pole Dancing, Nudity and Censorship on Instagram’, Feminist Media Studies, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 2002-2019. I learned about shadowbanning from this article: the way Instagram deliberately reduces post visibility when the content contains “borderline” nudity. It contributed to my project by giving me details of the harm content creators experience when sex is deplatformed. My activist subject is trying to reduce this harm. This article also alerted me to the hashtag #EveryBODYVisible, which my subject uses in her posts. Academic source 2 Academic source 3 Academic source 4 TIP: You can use more than one slide for this section if you need to TIP: Be accurate and consistent with your referencing! Non-academic source 1 Stardust, Z, van der Nagel, E, Tiidenberg, K, Lee, J, Coombes, E & Miller-Young, M 2022, Manifesto for Sex-Positive Social Media, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, 31 August, https://sexpositivesocialmedia.org/. This Manifesto argues that social media should be more inclusive of sex, sexualities, adult content, nudity, and bodies. It contributes to my project by providing evidence that a more permissive social media culture around sex would reduce discrimination of marginalised people. My activist subject’s beliefs on what they post to Instagram are based on the beliefs outlined in the Manifesto. Non-academic source 2 TIP: You can design these slides however you want – this is just a template. Feel free to add images or screenshots of your sources to communicate your research. My key concept: Audiences Litt, E & Hargittai, E 2016, ‘The Imagined Audience on Social Network Sites’, Social Media + Society, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 1-12. The concept of the audience as imagined helped me to think about the way social media users imagine their audience to guide what they post. My activist subject imagines her audience to share some aspects of her own demographics - young, middle-class women in Melbourne - but imagines that they are not as aware of her politics as she is. She posts to bring awareness to her cause, and to change their mind. TIP: Start your research into your concept with the starter pack of readings, but feel free to expand your research and find your own sources for your key concept, too My planned social media posts An activist slideshow summarising the Manifesto for Sex-Positive Social Media and arguing that all nipples on all bodies should be allowed on Instagram A comment section of the activist subject arguing with another Instagram user who disagrees with her An Instagram Reel of the activist subject responding to a particularly nasty comment from another Instagram user TIP: Use different kinds of posts to tell your story through creative writing. See what your chosen platform offers, and what the platform cultures are, in terms of text, images, and video.