Teamwork, as known as one of the important skills employers looking for, also mentioned by Dr. Wilson, a compulsory skill that we must have since almost all media works are involved collaborating with others. Which could let us learn how to resolve conflict, have a negotiation, develop our leadership ability, etc.
Experiences
Let’s start with talks about one of my best and worse collaborating experience happened during the higher diploma in Multimedia (abbreviated as High. Dip.):
The cool one would be… One of the members volunteered as being the ‘leader’ at first, which holding video meetings through Skype every week, such as the idea developing and work dividing progress, with assigning one of us to be the secretary that marked down the agenda, film shooting schedule, props and protagonist’s dress code. What we have to, were just following plans and notes that we have written down, ended up with quite a significant grading.
And the worse one… Was feeling a kind of unpeaceful during the last project of film Directing course, which we have to conceive an original short story and film it by our own. Began with one of our members had suddenly quit the course with no reason, that he was the scriptwriter and had left behind an unfinished story. Therefore, one of the others had suggested us to submit his previous work instead of wasting all day shooting a brand new one, which letting us fell into a dispute of what ‘original’ stand for. Finally, although they had listened to my opinion of making a new one, the half a day shooting was filled with an atmosphere of unwillingness.
Enough for sharing, after sharing our experiences in class (and also here), Dr. Wilson had discussed pretty an amount of elements of how a positive/good collaboration have, for example, consistency, support, responsibility, and respect, which impressed me the most. Asking me why? Besides on not to treat your teammates like mushrooms (?), I think the most important part in the communication is that, to treat others equally, no matter how different the personalities, races or identities we are, which won’t never be easy for us achieving it, as being one of our lifetime mission.
Sorry for getting a bit off-topic, how about the article this week, the backfires on Media Literacy?
As the reading mentioned, Google it, one of our most common ways of seeking information, in the world that full of fake news (not in my place, luckily) on the Facebook wall, what’s on Wikipedia could be modified by anyone, and people would only intent to trust what they want to. With the same idea as the writer, in order to survive in this world that’s full of intelligence, I think we should have the skill of filtering what we had received while googling them, which could be searching for the original source of what’s on your wall, or not to fully trust on some news sources that generally acknowledged as bias to a specific party.
Using Wechat as an example, the most popular social app in China, which could let you receive news by subscribing some so called ‘official’ accounts, that most of the news/articles won’t credit to what they originally came from. The way of us ‘treating’ them, I believe, would only be paying less attention on it, and do not share with others if you can’t ensure its credibility, in order to prevent your friends and relatives getting fake information. As long as, The writer had raised quite an interesting method of building a suitable social infrastructure creatively for media audiences, one of the infrastructure, I guess, would be to develop a social platform that filtered out news without apparent sources, the very first step, isn’t it?