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(Reflection on Topic 3) – Deeper thoughts on having single or multiple identities online From what Shih Ying mentioned, she stressed on the importance on protecting your identity online as she had an experience of being hacked early this year, which she shared ways to prevent this from happening. Similarly, I myself had a near-hacked experience where my private account was almost hacked by a person in Russia. Source: Personal Screenshot. Continue reading →

Topic 3: Discussing the pros and cons of having a single identity or multiple identities on the web. Introducing to this topic, Ulrike Schultze shares with us how social media shapes our identity online. Source: (TEDx Talks, 2015). As the children of the current generation grow up in the digital age, we all have our social platforms to communicate with each other since a young age. Continue reading →

(Reflection on Topic 2) – Deeper thoughts on trusting sources online From what Xin Yi mentioned, I understood how sharing false information would lead to supporting the wrong people, for example buying dupe products would essentially mean supporting crooks (Viceland, 2017). Source: Self-produced infographic There are tech companies trying to put their efforts on catching these fake news before they go viral and one example is a website, Snopes. Continue reading →

Evaluate how to assess the reliability and authenticity of online information. With us going to the web for answers to our questions, it is important for us to know which sources are credible so that what we say or use in our work is credible as well. This demonstrates our own credibility by contributing to the overall effect of our argument (libncsu, 2015). Continue reading →

(Reflection)Further thinking of how Digital Differences affect us? From what Helena mentioned, It was interesting how her own infographic she made really made the information very concise and clear to understand. It was also shocking to me that 53% of the world population was not using the web from the world’s standing of today. Continue reading →

Digital Differences and how it impacts our interaction on the web Digital differences are where social categories people are in allow them to use the internet in different ways. Examples are firstly, age, where older people tend not to use the web more compared to youngsters. Next, class, where the lower social class have lower forms of education, are less likely to access the web as well. Followed by people being cyber bullied due to gender and ethnicity. Continue reading →