First, a note. DTC students, always check your work against this example. If your work is similar to it, ur doin’ it wrong.
As for the final projects, a note for everyone: if your argument sounds like the description of the course itself (as seen in the syllabus), remember that is where we started; the course “facilitate[d] student exploration into the cultural impact of electronic media, especially the World Wide Web and social networking systems” and the “guiding question for the course is, broadly, how does cyberspace and online communities reinforce, transform, and/or resist inequalities found in what we can affectionately call “meatspace” (or “real life”)?”—we saw in the question on the mid-term. So, naturally, by the end of the course, your projects should in some way answer the question WHY or HOW with regards to one very specific aspect of the above, linking together topics: “X is Y because Z, as shown in A” or some such. Not “X is Y”, or “Z is awesome” or “we should do A”—those do not go far enough.
Additionally, remember that there should not be any questions asked explicitly in the text of your projects; it is your job in an analytical argumentative essay—especially at this level—to anticipate and answer those questions as part of the support that builds your argument.
I have seen some of the responses from this week’s presentations, and they range from critical to, shall we say, “punting,” in which everything is awesome and there are puppies and ice cream for everyone. As per usual, everyone should look at the critical responses.
Good luck.