Social Media Blog #1: Characteristics/Online Genres
Responses Due: Sunday, September 1, 2013; 9pm

Chapter 2
1. Choose one of the following Internet characteristics (listed below) and give an example, from your life, as to how the characteristic has impacted your communication process:
              a. Time and Space
              b. Social Space
              c. Private vs. Public

2. How do you understand the concept of space when using a computer network (please refer to one of 3 types of space mentioned in the chapter)

Chapter 4
1. How does the Internet support both  informational and interpersonal activities? Give specific examples.
2. Find an example of an advocacy website and evaluate the site content based on the following 5 criteria: accuracy, authority, objectivity, coverage, and currency.