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This week the topic shifted slightly in its outlook from how we work and integrate ourselves into using the web, to ethical dilemmas faced by grad students and the education system worldwide in regards to open access information online, with the web once again acting as a gateway to giving possible solutions. Reading the posts of others on the subject drew my attention to different sides of this debate. Continue reading →

Please click here for presentation: http://tinyurl.com/l6h7vry In the 3rd century BC, the Library of Alexandria was constructed, seeking to collect literature and papers of the world to act as a center for learning, drawing many of the time’s most notable scholars to its halls. Continue reading →

Entering into topic four of the course I feel we were perhaps given one of the biggest opportunities to leave our own personal stamp on our blogs. As we were allowed to choose “any” topic pertaining to social media and ethics that we found significant, the issue may have been daunting in its scope, had we not had the experience of the previous weeks to build upon our appreciation of how living and working on the web coincide. Continue reading →

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” -Google CEO Eric Schmidt [1] Over the past weeks we have inspected and dissected our actions on the web, both social and professional, separately and combined but with the overbearing implicit theme that the walls between aspects of our life are slowly starting to crumble. Continue reading →

This week’s topic gave the group not only an opportunity into discovering how we could market ourselves successfully online but also what a necessity it is to create a streamlined professional personal representation whilst avoiding any tarnishing of that image, or ‘brand’. Tamara Manton’s blog initially made me consider the title of the post more clearly in terms of how our actions must be ‘authentic’. Continue reading →

Photo by Steven Depolo. Source: http://www.flickr. Continue reading →

This week, looking into the pros and cons of online identity has certainly kickstarted my journey of beginning to think more deeply about how I should consider my actions on the web as an intrinsic part of life but also that if I am to use it, I must also respect the fact that the web has its own dangers and pitfalls that we are not often taught about. Continue reading →

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_Carnival_-_Masked_Lovers_(2010).jpg In my last post I spoke about the changing attitudes towards the psychology of web-users in how they use the web. The existence of online trolls is just one example of how people may believe they are in fact more protected and anonymous in their actions online than they truly are, which we may call Online disinhibition effect (1) or even the “Gyges effect”, first mentioned by Plato (2). Continue reading →

Beginning my UOSM 2008 blog about the concept of distinguishing and differentiating users proved not only interesting in and of itself, but also enlightening in that it had never crossed my mind that we might be able to categorise every user on the web in one sliding scale between being a resident and visitor. Continue reading →

With the internet providing myriad new ways to spread information, advertisement and services, both corporations and individuals should attempt to understand how users of the web can be categorized and therefore catered to individually, to provide the best experience to the widest demographic of web-users possible. In trying to initially approach categorization for how people approach using the web, Marc Prensky in 2001 first made use of the terms Digital “Natives” and “Immigrants”. Continue reading →