Q ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ASSIGNMENT Your Bibliography should include 4-5 varied sources relevant to your project. They can be documentaries, articles, essays, etc. At least, 2 of those sources must come from professional or academic sources related to the field.* Your sources should be a mixture of content research (research on your topic) and process research (research on your project). You must have at least 1 source for each type of research. The annotations should include a thorough summary, an assessment, and a reflection of the sources (you may pull from the Notes in your Prep Packet for your reflection). The majority of the annotation should extrapolate how the source is useful to your project and process. Please follow MLA formatting (Links to an external site.) guidelines. Each annotation should be around 75-150 words; be sure to include the word count at the end of each annotation/ citation. *Follow this link for more information on Professional and Academic sources. (Links to an external site.) For explication, here is a sample run-through of the difference between Content Research (topic) and Process Research (project) Example Topic/Project: Starting a Campaign to get My Apartment Complex to Recycle Content Research (topic) needed: Cost of Recycling for Apartment Complexes in Mesa Benefits of Recycling for Apartment Complexes in Mesa Amount of complexes that have recycling in Mesa Rental Rates of complexes that recycle vs. non-recycling apartments Benefits of recycling in general Optics of recycling vs not recycling for businesses in the U.S. Grants, funding sources that could help cut costs Statistics on what renters are looking for in apartment complexes Process Research (project) needed: How to write Persuasive letters Form and style of persuasive letters How to conduct community surveys Example Entry: Ostrow, Adam. After Your Final Status Update. July 2011, www.ted.com/talks/adam_ostrow_after_your_final_status_update. Summary In his TED talk, Adam Ostrow questions what happens to our social media presence (our Twitter posts, Facebook feeds, and Instagram photos) after we pass away. Since these are permanent, Ostrow discusses what it means for them to live on in a virtual world (the cloud) after our physical bodies have deteriorated, and how that might change the future. Assessment Ostrow compares our "digital archive" to the videos and photo albums of the past to illustrate the volume of personal information we record over a lifetime and question if it can live on after us. Using websites such as ifidie.net and 1,000 memories, and my last tweet, he shows how we can already make or predict posts, messages, and photos after we've died. With so much information about our digital personas, Ostrow embraces the idea that we may eventually be able to interact with the world long after we are gone. Though he is a journalist and not a technologist, it's clear that Ostrow has done his research and thought about this topic. He wants us to consider not only what our social media leaves behind, but how it could lead to a kind of digital immortality. Reflection Since my project is to build a digital cemetery, Ostrow's talk is helpful for thinking about where our social media information might go and how it might be used after we have died. Digital information doesn't decay the way bodies do, so this helps me consider alternatives to the traditional idea of "burial." Since Ostrow mentions other sites and apps that work with deceased "digital archives" I need to think about what my app might do differently than the sites he mentions. Perhaps my project can integrate with them in some way by linking to them as alternatives--similar to the way you can be cremated instead of buried. This offers options in terms of thinking about a digital afterlife. How can you bury information, especially information that exists in the cloud? PreviousNext