Hung Nguyen's Learning Journal

Social Media Metrics and Analytics: lj3 From the "We Are Data" reading and previous materials, I now know that every activity we do online leave behind digital traces, which then are picked up by algorithms to create personal databases of our "online" selves. And the same also applies to social media, Application Program Interface (API) is what allows data to be shared across social media which will then be organized by social network algorithms to group similar data categories together. There are multiple social media metrics for performance such as followers, interactions, popularity, and these metrics will inform the users of their social selves, which are also derived from data that the algorithms collected from digital traces. The word cloud visualization I did last couple of weeks was an excellent example of metadata, which is data about data, of how data are collected and grouped together through keyword detection just like how word clouds are created. It doe...

Time Diary For the time diary assignment, I choose Instagram because it's my favorite social media platform and where I express myself the most. Since the Instagram app on the computer has fewer functions and shortcuts, I only used Instagram on mobile, plus the convenience of using it when you can lie down comfortably as well. I never actually spend too much time on a social media platform unless the content posted is really attractive or there's a live stream of my favorite content creators, so my usage is usually short 5 - 10 minutes sessions of checking out friends' stories and celebrity news on the platform. And each session happens every hour and a half or when I get bored I will just constantly check on Instagram for entertainment. Besides the small checking sessions, I also usually chat with my friend on the platform and most conversations start with a story reply or when we share funny content with each other. On average, I would say that I spend around 20 minutes p...