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How to burst fake news, filter bubbles and echo chambers?

(source) Personal Learning Networks (PLN) of individuals vary respectively, depending on our relative level of media literacy. However, Adopting a skeptical attitude toward online resources is critical, since there is a large amount of misinformation, together with the information warfare ammunition, disinformation, distortions. (Robert Harris)   Is it reliable?  (source) Fake news is a get rich quick scheme. Continue reading →

We shouldn’t take it for granted, either for speaking top ten languages or internet infrastructures. 

Apart from the factors I’ve discussed in my  previous post, there are actually more dominant elements that are influencing our online learning and interacting patterns which are language barrier and infrastructure. In Min Hui’s comment, she brought about that around 25.3% of the internet user are native English speaker while the rest top 10 languages added up to an estimate 76.9% of the sampled internet population. Continue reading →

Digital resident, visitor and me

  Are you a digital resident or digital visitor? And what am I? To answer that, we need to understand the concepts respectively. In nowadays, individuals have access to the internet from all over the world, however; there are multiple ways regarding how people engage with the Web. Visitors and Residents model provides a simple way of describing a wide range of continuum of online engagement. Continue reading →