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Evaluation of Facebookaholics Anonymous: Event 1

What worked well?

  • Group dynamics – members of the group were very vocal, small group allowed for this
  • Organisation and structure – well planned out, script worked well for structure and steering conversations
  • Performance – ‘looked the part’, confident, got into the role
  • Documentation – balance of sound/photography and short film clips
  • Paperwork – Disclaimers, confidentiality and note taking

What didn’t work?

  • Too personal and vocal – myself and Jem were too vocal in the discussions which perhaps caused bias in the conversations
  • Sound recording – more planning needed and practice run, some sound didn’t record due to rushed setup
  • Location – too noisy, too internal – in college… could have been more effective in a more public setting
  • Publicity – more publicity across public rather than within PCA, time management of publicity could have been more effective done earlier – though small group worked well
  • Professional – could have been more professional in the role, we were more relaxed and informal because we knew everyone who attended

Other comments…

  • Achieved a level of awareness through discussions – members more aware of the construction of their identity
  • Good feedback from group – members were interested and vocal – perhaps potential to do again?
  • Achieved most of what we set out to do, to hold a small event based on the ideas of Alcoholics Anonymous and to raise the awareness and get people thinking about the ideas of social identity construction
  • Lost half of sound recording due to poor planning and human error
  • Worked well having colleague recording sound and photography
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Event Planning and Publicity – Facebookaholics Anonymous

We decided to model our first event on ‘Alcoholics Anonymous’ and hold a group, open to the public, where we would lead a group discussion on Facebook Identity and its construction and the general uses of Facebook within the group. We started to consider the topics, discussions and questions we would cover, publicity, location, etc.

The following images and documents illustrate some of that planning:

Draft Script:

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Final Script:

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FBA plan

Publicity: flyer and logo

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Location – considered public and private spaces, ideally we would have held the event in a community centre or public space we could have hired but due to time and finances we were unable to. We considered a private space but decided it would attract more people in an open public setting such as a café/coffee shop. As we documented the event we decided not to hold the meeting in a commercial coffee shop but in the college café, this enabled us to film, photograph and sound record the event without any issues of permission, though this may have been more uninviting for members of the general public if they had not previously visited the college.

One community centre we did consider was, Tothill Community Centre, Knighton Road, Plymouth PL4 9DA.

Publicity emails and posts:

email to all students screenshot

FB POST publicity
Communication and Confidentiality:
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