As most know, we are doing our documentary on fracking and the controversy around it. As a whole, we are trying to explore both sides of the coin and see if one side outweighs the other. We have split off what we want to individually accomplish and then we will bring it together as a whole and pull this project together. Hopefully by the end of this project, people will be more informed of fracking and its positives and negatives.

My role is to possibly find interviews and articles written by people in the fracking industry. I will then take this information and weigh it with the opinions of those who oppose fracking. It will be great to see what the industry says about fracking and then also see what the public thinks as well. I have  a friend whose dad is in the fracking industry and his interview will be attempted to be obtained. A first hand account could really improve our credibility on an already controversial topic. This information will be presented in an organized and informed way. I will use pictures, statistics, and slides to help make this as easy as possible. When explaining all this to my audience, I will take a confident tone and trust my sources.

When one looks at our project as a whole it should be quite strong. Fracking is something that not too many people are well informed about so it is great that we will be getting information out to the public. Our goal in this research is to find if fracking is worth all the trouble that it has been deemed.We are trying to tackle this from all angles and get multiple sources from different areas of fracking. Environmental aspects, power, and the race for natural resources will all be mentioned. Fracking is here and takes place in Pennsylvania. Is it worth it? We hope to find out.

Our group has decided on fracking and I coulnd not be more excited. It is a great topic to explore becuase Pennsylvania is one of the nation’s leading energy suppliers via fracking. This project opens up many possible ideas. I believe it will be important for our viewers to not only udnerstand fracking by definition but also to perhaps view it through a video or even a live feed. Important things that will be necessary for research are: what percentage of the country’s power comes from fracking, and what percentage of the country’s pollution comes from fracking. These two topics will be the weight of the entire presentation and determining if one outweights the othere will be very important in proving if fracking is here to stay or if it needs to go.

 Energy plays such a vital role in our lives that there should be no problem in attracting an audience. After doing research it will be important to decide which side of the coin we feel as a group is better. This will also prepare us for those against the viewpoint we have and we will have to rememeber to still reach out to the audience as a whole. This is always vital in portraying anything to an audience.

Fracking looks to be a great topic and it will be exciting to research and see just how much it affects our daily lives here in Pennsylvania.

Deciding on a topic for our group’s public controversy was no easy task. There are millions of topics to choose from and many more pop up each day. We decided we wanted to do something that related to us on a more personal level and so tentatively decided on fracking as our topic of choice.

Hydraulic Fracturing is the process of drilling into reservoir rock formations and releasing petroleum, natural gas and other abundant energy sources. So what is so controversial about this process? Fracking can cause air pollution and ground water toxication that can be very unhealthy. Over the past few years it has been a hot topic for debate and the main argument is does the good outweigh the bad consequences of this process.  It is a very interesting topic because it shows how far we will go to get energy sources for our state. This will be a great controversy to discuss and its long term impacts will be analyzed. On a broader note this also touches on the everlasting search for renewable enregy and the means to obtain it. Wheter we implement that toipic or not will be decided.

 Of course this reamins a tenative subject.  Other ideas included capital punishment and gentic modification. These topic are a bit harder as the arguement of religion comes into play but still remain possible choices as well.

I have decided to do my paradigm shift on the movement from one on one in person conversations to the use of social media. An evolution has occurred in the last decade where we are seeing people opt to use electronic and social media over meeting in person to discuss things. There is a debate on whether this movement is for the better or not. It has been a hot topic on how healthy conversation is through the use of social media over actual physical contact. I want to research this topic and see if this shift to social media is hampering our ability to effectively communicate with each other on a more personal level.

Pros- ability to communicate faster, allows people to reach out to those far away, and network more easily with friends and family.

Cons- hinders the ability to personally get to know someone, the issue of a social wall, and how it also can hinder communicational development.

Introduction- This will introduce my paradigm shift and give a brief discussion of the shift from one on one conversation to the use of social media.

The first paragraph will give background information about the evolution of the cell phone and the internet and how this changed our ability to communicate with each other.

Then I will discuss whether this shift was unavoidable or not and the consequences it presented to society as a whole. Research on whether it is good or bad for communication in society will also be discussed. Does social media create a wall between people?

I will then address both sides of the argument of how social media is good communication or it is ineffective because it hinders the ability to develop personal relationships due to lack of emotion.

Conclusion?

This is just a rough outline it is subject to change of course.