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Final Reflection

A journey has ended. As a person that likes to look back into memory, I am quite interested to see what has changed. Overall, I find myself spending more time on the Internet, which I am not sure is a good thing. But looking on the bright side, I started to expand my online territory, stepping out of the comfort of fictions and Netflix, and begin to fully utilize the web.   Online profiles. 1.Twitter I didn’t have Twitter before this course because I cannot use it in China. Continue reading →

Be Cautious and Fight Against

After reading some of my colleagues’ great work and doing a bit of research myself, I am quite curious about the “fake news” that is commonly spread online with or without disseminators’ knowledge. I looked up the definition of “fake news”: Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Continue reading →

Truth or Dare?

Even before the digital era, opinions and information surrounding people are hard to determine their reliability and authenticity. Now with the booming of technology, more and more unidentified informations are throwing at us and we can easily walking into a trap if we are not careful. From YouTube Fake or biased “fact” can lead us to distortion of the events and even personal financial losses. Continue reading →

Misunderstanding & Reflection

By reading through other colleagues’ blog posts, I realized that I probably misunderstood the concept of “digital differences”, which should be the difference in peoples’ accessibility to digital technology and therefore the consequences caused by it. In Michelle’s blog post, she stated that how the “digital differences” were shaped by social inequalities, demographic and economic background. Continue reading →

Topic 1 – Digital Differences

“Digital Differences” is generally referring to the differences or impacts caused by the digital evolution. Surprisingly, as we look back, digital technology has change the way we do things in all aspects. Instead of going to the grocery stores, we can now shop online and get the goods delivered to our doorstep. We no longer make frequent trip to the bank but just click a few buttons online to make our desired changes regarding finances. Continue reading →

Who am I?

As we are surrounded by information, our increasing online activities formed new identities in the digital world. Some choose to become “digital residents” and use the internet so much as if they live part of their life online. They utilize the internet in every aspect of their life. They use online stores to shop, online banking to manage their wealth, and be sure to registered in every social network platform to join or create online communities. Continue reading →