Sharing v Experiencing in College

Podcast Project 2.0

Abstract:
        	Our podcast focused on the idea of sharing versus experiencing via social media in a college setting. We used research to figure out the problems that arise from focusing on connecting and sharing with others as opposed to experiencing the here and now. This was done through research attributed to Sherry Turkle. We also questioned whether or not this was different for different social media platforms ex): Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, etc. The ideas we looked at included what people tend to share the most and whether or not people tend to share the more exciting aspects of their lives as opposed to just daily occurrences or feelings. We also talked about the idea that social media can in fact be a tool useful to adapting to college life as expressed through the study done by David Deandrea. We also factored in the phenomenon of social media attributed to the study done by Megan Sponcil and Priscilla Gitimu which discussed the impact social media has on a majority of college students and the surprising statistics on how popular social media platforms have actually become. Finally, we don’t really have an answer for our thesis. Communicating or sharing via social media and its impact on both your adjustment to college and your ability to better experience college in real life seems to be based on a person-to person basis. Thanks to Rowan Davis, Samantha Berlin, Hunter Cohen, Levi Hackett for helping and volunteering as interviewees for this podcast. 
All music used in this podcast was from Free Music Archive.org and downloaded with permission from the artists, which were: Doctors in Mexico, "d", Big Mean Sound Machine, "Triple Bacon", and Doctor Turtle, "Dorcas Breaking the Surface"

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