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My Journey and Final Thoughts

Source: Self Produced by Agnes As we put an end to this module “living and working on the web”, i’d say it has been a fun and fulfilling two weeks journey. The best part of this module is the flexibility it has given me, being able to work within my comfort zone and as and when i want to. Unlike the past, social media in the present day has become the fastest news distribution tool. Continue reading →

My Thoughts

Having to complete the final topic on network identity, I have managed to further grow my knowledge about my own online identities. My comment that i made on both Simon’s and Nichol’s blog was pertaining to past incidents that occurred in Singapore, how their personal comment on their social media went viral which got them fired from their job. In my comment i also shared with them that i adopt a multiple identities approach in order to draw the line between work and personal space. Continue reading →

One Person, Multiple Identities

Source: Information from MOOC Section 2.6, Picture produced by Agnes. As we all know with multiple e-mail accounts you can sign up for multiple social media accounts. This account could be used to differentiate yourself towards your friends, family or colleagues. But do you really have to do that? Source: Figures from MOOC section 2.6, picture produced by Agnes According to the short discussion on MOOC in Section 2. Continue reading →

Too Good To Be True?

An Example of Fake News Adapted from The Onion In a research conducted by Pew Research Center, it shows a significant increase in use across social media platform in 2017 to get news. Information on the web could come in many different forms and many sources, videos, social medias and newspaper. One could be exposed to many news article, forum and information in a day. However some of them are false. Continue reading →

My Real Thoughts on Digital Difference

Photo By: Krzysztof PuszczyĹ„ski After reading many of my peer’s blog post, I realized many of them have mentioned education and income level as their digital difference factor. Photo By: Myself I agree that this factor could shape one’s digital usage differently. In Renee’s blog post it was mentioned that education attainment would affect one’s technology adoption rate. I  agree that it could be a determining factor in the past but not the present. Continue reading →

Topic 1

Evaluate the impact of your “Digital Differences” on how you interact with the Web. Digital difference exists across different demographic groups. (Kathryn Zickhur & Aaron Smith, 2012) Factors such as age, disability, educational level and gender could impact one’s digital usage. Below are some factors I used to evaluate how i interact with the web. Continue reading →

Introductory Post

Well, are you a digital visitor or digital resident? According to David S. White and Alison Le Cornu it is said that a digital visitor are individuals who use the internet to complete a set of defined tasks. There is minimal social visibility and they tend not to leave any social footprints behind. An example of this would be, someone searching on how to fix a bike, once they get the particular set of information, they will then go offline. Continue reading →