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Topic 5: Reflection

In my post, I mentioned that a win-win situation would be to get advertisers to advertise on the website so that users can get free materials and content producers can gain some income. When I said that, I focused on the idea that paywalls are rigid and no one would pay for access to materials unless of emergency given our ‘everything online should be free’ mindset. However, Hui Juan’s post gave me insight that paywalls are evolving from its traditional model. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Relection

This topic has been rather interesting mainly because there are many different ethical issues that my classmates and I have discussed. On Vivian’s blog, she too mentioned the issue of privacy but focused on identity theft instead. Although the term identity thief is not new to me, it did not occur to me that there are many cases of such and the extent of which its negative complication can bring about to individuals. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Privacy

Privacy is one of the ethical issues raised by business use of social media that I consider to be particularly significant. Social medias, as we know, enables the creating and sharing of information, ideas, career interest and other forms of expression through virtual communities and network. Continue reading →

Topic 3: Reflection

  Today’s topic has been an eye opener for me. Technology have improved and changed so many decisions in our lives. I have learnt various things about creating a professional online profile, and how important it is to maintain and be mindful of what I curate on my various social media channels. Given that, as stated on Jia Jun’s blog, 94% of recruiters nowadays assess potential candidates on social media such as LinkedIn. Continue reading →

Topic 3: Professional online profile

First off, what is professionalism in the digital world? E-professionalism is defined as the attitudes and behaviours reflecting traditional professionalism paradigms that are manifested through digital media (Cain and Romanelli, 2009). For example, being nice, kind and helpful are part of the job requirement of a nurse however if a nurse was to post some mean tweets on her twitter account, she is being unprofessional. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Reflection

There are pros and cons for having more than one online identity. Personally, after reading my classmate’s posts regarding this topic, I do not see much of an issue with having multiple online identities as long as one is able to manage it and not fall off the deep end. On XinHui‘s post, she mentioned about the effect of having more than one online identity on mental health. Continue reading →

Topic 2: More than one online identity?

What is an online identity? Online identity is the sum of your characteristics and interactions. That consists of every credit card transaction, uploaded photo, shared social post, social login, sent email, and site cookie. (Mark Bregman, 2014) (Source: Wikipedia-Peter Steiner’s cartoon, as published in The New Yorker) One of the reasons for having more than one online identity is anonymity. Continue reading →