Name: Logan Doucette

CMM 240 A – Spring ‘22

Date Due: 2/22/22

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 Baym “Making New Media Make Sense”

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

“A common motif in stories of digital media damaging relationships is the “cyberaffair.”

Comment (250-500 words)

This quote connects to most people across the country and even across the world. New media has created easier ways to communicate with other men/women behind your partner’s back and with the swipe or tap of a finger, all the evidence can be deleted. Social media apps are filled with men and women looking for fame from likes and followers for their sexual photos from people in relationships of all kinds. The ability to privately message someone over text or direct message through social media is easy today. This leaves partners to trust each other with their own business and hope they’re not texting another person. Personally, this has happened to me. A person who I thought I was seeing exclusively was texting multiple other people and spending time with them behind my back. In reality, I should have known just based on whom that person was before I had met them, but I trusted and believed that things would be different. It was so easy to coordinate around our plans to make plans for another relationship they wanted to entertain outside the one that I believed was the only one. Not only does new media allow for easier ways to communicate around a partner, but it also drags partners away from each other because of how constantly they are using it when they are with their partner. Some relationships falter because the other partner is too busy watching videos, talking on the phone, or simply scrolling through their feed. Along with other things like pornography and models online, it has partners wanting for something more than what they have in their relationship. These fake things they see on new media create an idea that there is something better and make’s people chase the unattainable. 

Question

Is there any way new media could make a change for the better instead of the direction it’s headed in now?

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