Yujingzhao

=My Analysis and Reflection=

Individual Contributions
The topic of my Wikispace is on Chinese Internet Police. There are mainly seven parts of my entry, the Myth, the Correction of the Myth, Chinese Internet Police, Internet Censorship in Mainland China, Examples, Big Mama, and External Links. Because I had put on the topic a week before the due date, I gave my classmates time to add their ideas to my topic. The Myth section is actually done by someone else. When I saw the entry, I did some research and found out that in fact, there are a lot of Chinese Internet Police unlike what we have learnt from the guest lecture. Hence, I added the Correction of the Myth. In order to give the audience full background knowledge of how Chinese media operate, what is the bigger environment in China recently, I not only focused Chinese Internet Police itself, but also related issues like Big Mama, Internet Censorship in Mainland China. Also, four individual images are linked to make the webpage more reader friendly; ten external links are placed at the bottom to encourage readers to go beyond what I have provided and learn more about how other people think and response to this issue.

Regarding the issue of community maintenance, I have helped others to add photos of Castell and Foucault on corresponding pages; also, I added table of content for entries, iPod and Levesque, Michelle. The last one, I had to learn by myself if I want a certain phrase to be shown on the table of content, “=” sign must be added before and after the phrase using Text Editor. In my Wiki entry, I linked Baidu and Michelle within our community.

Suggestions
In the process of doing this project, I and one of my other classmates got inspired by this idea, and tried to set up our own Wikispace for our Chinese club. However, the result was not very pleasing, for most of our members are not familiar enough with Wikispace and do not know what to do or where to begin. I remembered facing the same kind of problem when I first started off on this project. I encountered difficulties when I tried to add external and internal links, paste a photo, add table of content, change the font size of the text, etc. Hence, I suggest that there should be an interactive page teaching all of these fundamental techniques to new comers.

=Reflections and Observations=

Moreover, I was extremely happy to experience this collaborative writing process. When I found out that others had added information to my page, it actually gave me new ideas of how to writing the page. And, I found finishing up and post stub of works up early very useful. Someone in fact linked his firewall entry after I finished my part and it helped my readers to understand the topic much better.

Overall, I found this learning experience quite useful and exciting. I wish that this dynamic idea of creating class wikispace would carry for next year.