Week 11 Reflections
This week took me down unexpected routes. Facebook presented me with a suggested post from The Hastings Center. That suggested post led to my first blog post of the week, which discusses ethical concerns surrounding a Twitter job market study. The week's reading from The Pew Research Center led me to consider Internet, Smartphone, and social media usage in developing economies versus developed economies, resulting my second blog post of the week. Finally, reading the following posts from my fellow EME 6414 classmates inspired me to consider the role of Internet and social media use in education in a specific developing economy (The Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC): Idam's Blog - Social Media Use in Developing Countries Web 2.0 Based Learning & Performance - Social Media Constraints at Higher Education African Institutions Through my reading, I learned that integrating the Internet into education in the DRC isn't as simple as it might seem to me, sitting here in
