Matt's Intro | W2 Q0 | Forum

My name is Matthew Drazin (Matt), and I am just beginning my second year in the EPET program. I did my undergraduate degree in computer science here at MSU. I’m not 100% on what my career goals are just yet. I could see myself at a university, college, working at a makerspace, or some nonprofit. While I’m still in the program, I hope to be able to meet people with diverse interests and be able to spend my time focusing on the topics I care deeply about. The core piece of which is how cool making is. I am currently bouncing between mentorship in making, debugging/failure in making, and more recently, authorship and identity within making and makerspaces. It is this last piece that brings me to this class. I have never been a big social media person (as Chris surely knows), but I had an interesting conversation with Sarah G about making as authoring which lead me to think more deeply about the correlations between making and social media. Being that I have not thought about this before, I figured a good way to explore these concepts further would be to take this course. I hope we get to talk about authorship and what that means/feels like as well as give myself better exposure to social media as I am discovering it and its theory has a larger application to my own interests.