After I looked all the webpages of my classmates, here is a list of our common interests

 

• Reason to take this couse: The main reason that lead us to take this course was because we are interested on how the computers and media affects our society.  In addition, the content of the course is really interesting to us and we can apply our programming/design skills to develop new media.

 

Commom Media Usage

I have a lot of things in common with my classmates, except for video-games and books, although I was an active video-gamer a long, long time ago :D and sometimes I spend time with one of my cousins playing fighting video-games.  Also, it is not surprising that we have a lot in common, since almost everyone is a CS student.

 

The most common elements are: social media, e-mail, news, TV shows, movies, music/video streaming, and smartphones.

 

• Computer

  • ​Social Media: ​Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

  • E-mail: ​Gmail, Yahoo, TAMU

  • News

  • Software

    • ​Text editor: Sublime Text (Dey'Ana Wilson)

    • Others: Microsoft Office (Dey'Ana Wilson)

 

• TV

  • ​TV shows

    • ​Science Fiction

    • Horror: Supernatural, American Horror Story (Harry Zhang, Alex Spear, Chandler Sauers, Kristen Musolf, Ankita)

    • Animation

    • Fantasy

    • Drama: Dexter, Prison Break, Lost (Alex Spear, Chandler Sauers, Pratheek Lakur Krishna Murthy, Daniel He​)

  • Sports

    • ​Basketball: NBA [Spurs] (Pratheek Lakur Krishna Murthy)

 

• Movies

  • ​Science Fiction: Inception, Dark Knight, Captain America, Iron Man, The Amazing Spiderman, The Avengers, The Hunger Games saga (Zach Villasana, Manisha Tripathy, Michael Parsons, Shruti Panda, Ankita Panda, Taylor Hunt, Ankita​)

  • Action

  • Thriller/Horror: Insidious 1 and 2 (Shalini​)

  • Drama: Unbroken, Titanic, A Walk to Remember (Shruti Panda, Daniel He​)

  • Animation: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Finding Nemo, Tangled (Shruti Panda, Thomas Scott Jasper​)

  • Dance: Step Up saga (Ankita Panda​)

  • Fantasy: Avatar (Zach Villasana​)

 

• Smartphone

  • ​Samsung Galaxy

    • ​Social Media: Instagram

    • Instant Messaging: ​Whatsapp, Skype, Facebook Messenger

    • Games: Sudoku, Candy Crush (Yang Zhou, Nicholas Hanemann)

 

• Music\Video streaming

  • ​Spotify

  • YouTube