Name: Logan Doucette

CMM 240 A – Spring ‘22

Date Due: 2/15/22

QCQ is short for “Quotation-Comment-Question.” It begins with a Quotation of 1-3 sentences. It then has a Comment. And it then asks a Question that encourages engagement from others. A good QCQ gives you something to bring to the table and offers something worth discussing in class. Earn full credit (1000 points) for a QCQ that touches all 3 bases – and is in on time.

QCQ for Small Change

Quotation (with page number or parag number or time stamp if video/audio)

“But how did the campaign get so many people to sign up? By not asking too much of them.”

Comment (250-500 words)

I couldn’t agree with this quote more. There are hundreds of examples of this “easy social change” happening every day. The most relevant one to all of us is our petition against the block scheduling, yet a week after the petition was posted and thousands of people signed it, UNE sent a school-wide email explaining they will be moving into block scheduling next year and gave their reasoning behind it. This same problem came about during the rise in the BLM movement during the midst of the pandemic. Social media had created a trend to post a black screen in support for the movement, and for most of us that’s how far our support went. Why? Because it was easy for us to just cover our camera and post a black screen with the hashtag BLM. Most of us didn’t take part in any sort of march or protest during that time because it would have put us out of our comfort zone, or personal risk of possible injury or someone thinking differently about you. I see this all the time with climate change on social media. There are posts claiming a tree will be grown with every share, or a penny will be donated with every share. Hundreds of thousands, even millions of people post never knowing whether there truly was a tree grown or penny donated. We post pictures of injured sea life, trashed beaches, or dead coral reefs to promote awareness but we never put our posts into action in our own lives and circumstances. This is too much effort; it’s not as simple as the touch of a screen.

Question

Have you or anyone you know participated in a movement they believed in and truly pursued it outside of social media?

Post-Class Reflection Space (5 minutes at end of Theory Tuesdays – use back/other page if needed)