In my Communication Studies Capstone course, I have had the amazing opportunity of working alongside four other women in order to bring together an issue that has impacted our society pretty heavily. Our course has decided to focus on Consumerism and through this, granted us the ability to collaborate with other people in order to make an impact through communication in regards to this matter.
As explained above, this project required us to use collaboration in order to truly complete each assignment and overall goals. I had the chance to work with Madeline Kelch, Savannah Jones, Alexia Bowen, and Bailey Haas. Each individual became responsible in making sure their portion of the project was completed each week before we met and needed to turn anything in.
Each week, we all had something to work on in regards to the assignment that needed to be completed. Below is a list of each assignment that was completed together in this project.
1. ACP Topic: Each person had to think about a topic they think would fit best for our group.
2. ACP Team Contract: Each person had to come up with team rules that would be implemented throughout the semester.
3. ACP Theory: Each person had to pick a theory, research the meaning and history behind the theory while also tying it back to our project topic. From there, are group decided on the one theory that fit best.
4. ACP Research Methods: Each person had to review different ways of conducting research and the team decided on which best fit our topic.
5. ACP Message Analysis: As a group we picked which years of trends that we wanted to focus on and what specific trend in each year that we wanted to use. Each person picked a year and did research into some of the biggest trends in that year and brought it to the table.
6. ACP Message Development: Each individual took to social media to test our message in regards to seeing if people were influced by trends to consume as natural consumerist. After each post was made on individual accounts, we decided to bring our test results back and form our intervention method based on what feedback we recieved.
7. ACP Presentation: As a group, after our prevention method was completed, we created a presentation to share our journey and the results we recieved.
Below are two examples of the assignments that we completed within this project and each paper talks about how we were able to complete said assignment and how collaboration was used to get it done.