Monday, December 9, 2013

Final Reflection

This semester my group was focused in bringing news about the Mexican Drug Wars. Since it was such a broad topic, we decided to divide it up into the role of women and role of the media. Topics covered ranged from a vigilante group that decided to take matters into their own hands, how women were affected, the issues with journalist, and how tourism still continued despite increasing violence. My particular part was with how journalist were affected to the point that they feared their life. Many have been threatened journalist for publishing incriminating investigations or other things such as tying the government to illicit activities. Therefore, it is probable that much of the events happening might not even be reported due to fear of retaliation.

As a group we decided that we should split into teams of two and within the team of two we would decide how to work. My theme was violence on women due to drug cartels. Therefore my research had to be based on this. However, there were times when there was no information about women. If this happened, I would move on to our other point of focus, which was the media. I was also sure to check the sites being used for my research because many information is from alternative media. This was specially important because sometimes the source would be extreme and their information was too biased. By working as a group, the feedback and comments of what went right or wrong that week helped a lot how to shape the research and post.

By doing this project I realized that there is much more to a topic than one would expect. I also learned that it is vital to keep updated on subjects of interest because from one week to the other, there would be captures of drug lords and that would reshape and bring new events sparking suddenly. Another thing that I found interesting is that this is a war and it is not getting enough attention by the US media. Innocent people's lives are being taken away and there are no big headlines talking about it. This connects with other issues such as why an immigration reform is wanted by people who have a fear of going back to a country where there is so much chaos. Therefore, I was able to make connections within international contexts.


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