User talk:RonaldTomlinson

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November 2016
Hello, I'm Parsley Man. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Parsley Man (talk) 06:55, 23 November 2016 (UTC) Parsley Man (talk) 06:55, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

FINAL REFLECTIONS ON WIKIEDU: AFPRL290.26
Briana McCarthy AFPRL 290 Reflection 12/14/16 I’ve grown in my understanding of the influences that hip hop has on community and the various aspects that are included in hip hop culture. I learned about how strongly related things like graffiti, dance, and girls’ schoolyard rhythms were to the origins and enhancement of the music. I learned that continued practice is very helpful in developing skills that can be applied in the future. Research papers for one have been easier to comprehend and consolidate them into relevant thoughts. By utilizing the templates, I have become a better researcher and therefore better student. I feel that more people should know about how much work and dedication go into creating hip hop. As a craft, it came from humble beginnings and was instrumental in helping communities come together to create. In my book, Grandmaster Flash is put into perspective in that he grew up appreciating technology and how it worked, as well as developing the scratching he became known for by watching the spokes of his bicycle turn. I feel if more people were to be exposed to this information, more people would appreciate the artistic integrity of the art of hip hop. Professors have long condemned Wikipedia for its reputation of being open to the public for edits. After editing for this class, I feel it’s an advantage more than a disadvantage because you have so many people looking out for the correct and incorrect edits. It brings people together to develop an understanding of a topic that perhaps one person may not know enough about to properly convey the major points of the page being created. Hip hop in particular should be contributed to because there are so many perspectives yet to be added to the pages, and new information continues to be discovered and added. Too often in today’s world we overlook the value of collaboration and obsess over plagiarism. If we take a look at hip hop, we see a form of creative expression not afraid to take inspiration from another person’s work and build off of that to create something new and unique. I feel this would be useful for people to reflect on the ways in which others effect their lives both positively and negatively. From here we can learn to help each other to inspire creativity that could lead to something better overall for us as a community, we could come together and work as one. I feel this course was very informative and interesting. It definitely increased my interesting in the world of hip hop culture, I just wish there was some form of a structured timeline as far as how, why and when things happened within the hip hop community. The added material of videos, articles and interviews really kept my interest in the relevant topics, so that should be continued, as well as the times for students to collaborate during class on cyphers and exchanging music. The cyphers and remixes made me think more critically about the aspects that go into making hip hop, focusing on the aspect of community. For a cypher to work effectively, there must be a flow between all the participants, causing them to allow their creativity to freely show since you must think fast to keep up. There is bias surrounding most if not all aspects of our environment. It permeates hip hop culture, from its origins to now, and is even seen on Wikipedia judging by the demographic of its participants. I’ve learned with a little ingenuity we can rise above and prove to ourselves and the rest that only the knowledge we have and art we create should be judged, detached from what we may look like or where we may be from. On Wikipedia for example, creating a gender neutral or masculine name could be one way to avoid implicit bias from those who feel a woman may not know as much as the white male majority. Its little things (that shouldn’t have to be employed) that can help to overcome just a small fraction of systemic bias we see today. Of course there is much more work to do, we must keep moving forward to show systemic bias for what it is: ridiculous.RonaldTomlinson (talk) 13:55, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the final reflection.
You wrote: "I just wish there was some form of a structured timeline as far as how, why and when things happened within the hip hop community." I intend to provide this next time. Should have provided this and used it as a framework: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/about_hiphop.htm --sheridanford (talk) 02:21, 22 December 2016 (UTC)