User:Criva077

My name is Caroline R-C. and I am a fourth year psychology student with a minor in communications at the University of Ottawa, in Canada. I am very interested in anything that has to do with psychology, thus, I used this interest to my advantage in writing an assignment for my Theories of Media Class CMN2160B, at the university of Ottawa, with Professor Patrick McCurdy as our educator. The topic I chose to edit for this assignment is on psychological resilience. We have been asked to add 750 words of referenced text to an article of interest to us. If the subject was not already covered by Wikipedia, we were asked to create a new page. Fortunately, my subject already had a page so I could add sentences here and there, create sections of my own, add information on research I have done on the subject, etc. This was such an interesting assignment because it essentially got us to gain more insight into a topic that we were already interested in. Granted, that is if we aren't already experts on the topic, which I am not. I initially used the Wikipedia page of my topic as a guideline for what to write about but then realized that wasn't really the point of the assignment. So, I sought out to find information that I could add to the article, to make it a little more interesting to me. There's almost always something that needs to be edited in any given article at any given time. Everything is constantly evolving, or rather constantly 'updating' itself, so too should its Wikipedia page! The second part of the assignment was to write a reflective essay on the significance of being able to use Wikipedia. With theories seen in class such as McLuhan's hot and cool media as well as Innis' time vs space-biased media, I tied in some relationships between Wikipedia and these concepts to discover what kind of significance Wikipedia offers for its audience.