Challenge #5 Part 1

Hello everyone! This week I will present you the different levels I have escalated in order to become engage with the social issue my group is focusing on, college tuition rising. The process of lurking gave me valuable and essential weapons in order to obtain the social perspectives high college tuition. The experience for engaging was a little difficult. College tuition is an issue that affects a large amount of our population; however, not a lot of people expose it on the social media. I was really amazed to find posts like these on twitter. Although I never visited twitter, I was not able to find much information on different social websites. It was really interesting observing that political candidates like Bernie Sanders were addressing the topic through social media. I have gain so many perspectives throughout this amazing process of researching a topic through social media. I have gain a new way of viewing social media. My generation is so use to just using media as a form of entertainment; however, I have learn how media has revolutionized our way of changing the way we utilized social media and the purpose for it. Using media as a source to research a specific topic has provide me with a different perspective about social media. It is amazing how people is able to communicate with different individuals in order to expose a specific social issue or idea that is affecting a big portion of society. I will continue to engage myself in different posts about my social topic in order to accumulate important information from social media.

 

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