Response to Ashley J. Holmes' "Public Writing for Social Change"
1. I think that social media writing can lead to social change, I know that I've seen a lot of tweets that connect to GoFundMe's or information pages on how you can do what you can to give aid to people in Palestine.
2. To me, an academic citizen is someone who's well-informed beyond the average person and does a lot of their own research for something. My best example would be my mom, who always reminds me to make sure that I look for more than one report for a piece of news to see what things might've been omitted in one as opposed to another.
3. I tried the public writing assignment but kept getting distracted with how hot it was outside and just ended up writing a little rant on climate change. So I suppose that I could use that in public writing, since the environment is a pretty hot (ha) topic right now.
4. I believe that there's multiple public spheres. Talking to my friends versus talking to my parents, my friends and I will get together on Discord (due to us living in different states now) and if we debate about things it tends to lean towards more social, business, or medical related topics due to what just happens in our lives. With my parents, we have more political debates, and they can get less heated than those I have with my friends.
5. I honestly haven't done much public writing (social media lurker rather than poster), unless you could count those "Who Would Date You" quizzes. I was a pre-teen who liked anime writing silly quizzes for pre-teen girls who also liked anime, and I used a looooot of the "rawr XD" kind of language. That kind of stuff is a far cry from the stuff I write now - mainly the lack of quiz format - and I've also improved my writing skills in general. In terms of how it's similar to my writing for school, I suppose I could say that the aspect of "writing for other's satisfaction" might be it (people getting the anime character they wanted vs teachers being relieved that I actually thought deeply about the assignment).
6. Possibilities for going "public" with writing for me would probably include making an actual blog to talk about either gaming issues or language and culture talks. I did get a passing idea about language-related memes, but I'd need to think more about how I'd go about that properly.
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