#ProgressBlog6

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Progress Blog #6

Today my progress is slow. I feel overwhelmed by this ethnographic project because what we have to turn in for a final grade is HUGE! I have a million other “end of semester” things that I need to complete. Its as if every professor I have decided this week was THE WEEK they wanted extensive papers, symposiums, or presentations due. I have a presentation I have to give in comparative politics over President Duterte of the Philippines and why Populism has spread. Then I have ANOTHER symposium due for the same class on Tuesday that is a group project that will be done in the Alumni Center in front of important people. Only probably is apparently I am the only group member that seems to be concerned with it. I have received NOTHING from them and I am the one (for reasons now I cannot figure out) who volunteered to put it together on a display, so until they email me their portions I wont be able to put it together. Then I have a paper for Texas Govt, a test on Friday for the same class and to top it off a mass media final to study for. It has been a nightmare. I wanna rip my hair out and I would except then I would be stressed AND ugly. I have to pick one struggle at a time. 

This is an example of the kind of post I would personally make in LTGT. It would be filled with comments from the members of the group telling me “You Got This”... encouragement in college from your friends is super important.

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Progress Blog 6

Finding artifacts is the current process I am in this research. Again! This research is over the literacy practices of fans in regard to the online fandom of Oprah. Many different people choose to express themselves in the way they feel or know how on social media and I am to search to find material objects shared amongst participating fans. Material objects are readable texts that can represent the culture of the specific field site you're studying. For example in my research these materials could be tickets for O.W. Talk show or a fan photo at an Oprah Winfrey event. Both can be used to reach further understanding of the relationships between fans and literacy. I have made major progress in the research because I am now completely aware of and open minded on literacy.