Week 2 - Session 2 (Independent Research)

In today's lesson, we were split into groups for a class debate. We were either for or against the topic: social media, superstores or voting. I was placed into the social media group and we decided to go for the idea that social media is not anti-social. This exercise was quite helpful as I got to see the different view points from others and their perspective on social media. 

After the lesson I was once again struggling with my decision with social media as both side of the debate presented valid points. I decided to do more independent research to make my final decision on whether I wanted to go for or against social media as I wanted to move on and explore specific areas within my stand point. In the end, I decided to stick with the idea that social media is anti-social. 

To further unpack the idea of Ihi and Wihi, I decided to look at posters that is similar to my topic and started to break down the idea of the imagery and colours used to portray a message. Many of these posters have a bad reaction against social media, and the ideas that I was able to generate through these images became a starting point and inspiration for poster ideas. I also decided to make a mind-map of words relating to my topic so I can find images for my poster.