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2015, Page 51

Review on “Digital Visitors” & “Digital Residents”

I have never thought that there will be a categorization for different users with their different motive. After much research on the topic as well as reading my peer’s blog post on their view, has really broaden my horizon about how users perceive themselves on the internet. In my post about Digital Visitors and Digital Residents, I talked about the White and Marc’s theory as well as personal views. Continue reading →

Reflections

After reading through most of my classmates’ blog, I’ve realised that there’s so much I’m lacking of and so much to learn from. It’s pretty amazing and interesting to watch how they got creative with their blog layouts, styles and content. I’m honestly very inspired by many of their work! Among all the blog posts, the two that I’ve commented on, each have its unique take on this given topic. Continue reading →

Wrapping up

On my previous post, I discussed the characteristics of digital ‘residents’ and ‘visitors’. Having read some of the blog posts on the same topic from my peers, here is something extra that I have learnt: Cr: Tianyi’s Blog This is Tianyi’s personal Visitor & Resident map. It caught my attention as I did not look into it further while I was doing my research. Continue reading →

Topic 1 – Reflective Summary

After reading my classmates posts on digital “visitors” and “residents”, it got me thinking further into the two concepts and the different perspectives each have to approach the question. I agree to their points and shared the same views as most of them! It also gave me a deeper insight to the concept. Besides having dominant factor that affects the distinction, other factors like demography and culture maybe a dominant factor too. Continue reading →

Topic 1: Summary and Comments

This topic and the various articles has helped to provide insight about the digital world relating to Digital Natives/Immigrants and the evolutionary shift to Digital Visitors/Residents. I did not have any prior knowledge regarding to this and I used to think that everyone is the same, we are just users of the Internet with different purposes. Continue reading →

Topic 1 – Reflective Summary & Comments

Reading through some of my classmates’ blog, it seems that quite a few of them have similar online behavior as me. Most importantly, there are some interesting blogs that I have seen which talks about how the internet influence and motivate their behavior on the internet. Looking across different blogs, I found certain blogs to be interesting and knowledgeable in terms of the work that they produced. And there are certain sentences that makes me ponder and question more. Continue reading →

Topic 1 Reflection Summary + 2 comments

After reviewing the various blog posts on the topic of ‘digital visitors and residents’, I realized that everybody had their own unique perspective and approach in interpreting and answering the topic. Everyone used the theories of Prensky and White as the base of their writings with relative similarity. However, it came to my realization that we are in a ever changing world, where technology is constantly and rapidly evolving. Continue reading →

Visitors and Residents, what define them ?

Visitors see the internet as a box of tool to achieve their goal. They didn’t leave any trace of their appearance, such as expression of opinions or having any ‘digital identity’. It is not because they are not technically adapted but they are more focused. It could be the individual have a great network offline that they did not need any additional online community. Visitors act based on their goal is to solve their problem so they will chose the appropriate tool and sign off. Continue reading →