Unit 2 "Community"

"Working" is a community.

What makes this group a community is that they all work together for a single purpose on the job. The purpose of this community's job is to produce materials that promote student events and activities. This main purpose holds the various parts of this group together. Some people work specifically on advertising, budgeting, and hosting the student activities and events.

This community shares an interest in broadening the cultural atmosphere of the student body at Everett Community College by providing opportunities for the students to have exposure to various events without having to leave the campus. The group also has a need for support from each other, and for each other. This interdependency helps keep the cogs of the wheel in motion. Shared values of this group includes wanting to help students to connect to each other, give them opportunities to 'give back' to the student body and this helps develop a sense of community for the student body in general.

Tensions can arise in this group when different working members have differing ideas about how to promote an activity or event. Some people emphasize the complexity involved in a project, while some people have a simpler approach because they want to make it less confusing to the viewing public. Personal preferences can lead to some mild conflict which spurs open debate so that in the end, we can come to a compromise that everyone accepts.

I personally fit into this group by sharing certain skills and my philosophy of graphic design with the others in this 'community'. I in turn appreciate the specific skills the other members of the community contribute to make the overall project or assignment a success. I enjoy my role of assistant graphic designer, because it gives me lots of practical experience of working as a team to promote and produce worthy events. I find this to be a gratifying form of connecting to the smaller group at work, which then connects me to the broader community of the Everett Community College student body by communicating these events and activities to them in a meaningful way.