Digital Writings

The practice project helped me understand the connection between analyzing data and drawing conclusions about writing. Before this class, I didn’t think about the impact web writing has on media data. Social media captions can vary from short to long, and personal to trendy, but all of them matter in attracting a purpose and audience. With this knowledge, I can better analyze the data for my research question. 

When I first starting thinking about my account choices, I decided I wanted to choose accounts that have interested me and impacted my thinking while following them. The first person that came to my mind was Sadie Roberstson Huff because she has encouraged me as a women and as a believer in Christ. I wanted to choose to do research on her page because I wanted to learn more about how I can encourage women like she does. Then, I began to think of other women I follow with similar audience and I thought of two more. Once I narrowed down my account choices and started the proposal, I noticed that these three content creators post authunticly and thats what draws me into their content. Their web writing is true and emotionally appealing. Therefore, I chose to write my research question and hypothesis off these appeals.

I am planning to focus my research on the digital space of Instagram. I chose to focus my research on Instagram because I use Instagram typically once a day to scroll through posts, comment, and post. I have had a personal page for over five years and a photography business page for two years. Therefore, I am most familiar with this space and I can effectively navigate data research and analysis based on both data and personal experience, having followed content creators on Instagram for years. 

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Yesterday, I was able to collect data on ten of my recent posts. These posts ranged from the end of January to the beginning of May. They included posts of weddings, engagements, family portraits and a giveaway. From collecting data and analyzing the content, I noticed that the giveaway post had five times the views and comments as all my other posts from the last few months. I also noticed the posts with multiple pictures have more interactions than posts with one picture. I think this is because my audience likes to scroll and look at more pictures. If there is only one picture, they just keep scrolling to the next post without interacting. Another pattern I saw emerging after collecting data is more comments on posts with personal and well-written captions. I believe this is because my audience cares about me being personal with my clients rather than just a photographer that takes photos.

I am collecting my data through my photography business account on Instagram. I started my business photography account two years ago after getting my first camera. I chose to collect data on my business account because I want to learn about how I can become an effective web writer to increase interactions on my page. On my business Instagram account, I can collect followers, likes, comments, views, and reposts. Yesterday I was able to collect data on ten of my recent posts. This helped me grasp a good understanding of my audience, user experience, purpose and discourse community. 

Thursday- Data Analysis Practice Project

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Writing in Tumblr is beneficial to my writing development in various ways. Dr. Pfannenstiel’s book provides insights into the benefits of posting writing on media. Dr. Pfannenstiel exclaims, ““The infrastructure of the internet not only builds and renders what we see, turning zeroes and ones into pictures and text, it also records visits, views, interactions, and more.” Posting my writing on Tumblr provides me with feedback such as views and comments. Therefore, I can use data to indicate what areas my writing needs to grow. In addition, posting consistently and regularly on Tumblr will give me the ability to grow in fluency. 

One of my writing goals is to become fluent in writing. I want to become a fluent writer because it will help me express my thoughts confidently and clearly. Writing is incorporated in all my courses through comprehensive assignments such as essays and exams. Writing detailed notes is another helpful tool in comprehending content in other classrooms. Therefore, it is important to become a more fluent writer to have success in other content areas. I am excited for this course because I believe creating tons of content on Tumblr will help me become a fluent writer.

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