Topic 2 – Reflection
I said at the end of my blog, I’d know where I’d stand in the coming days and I can say with confidence I now do.
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Topic 2 reflection
Another topic has arrived to an end. It’s so amazing to see how different people can have a completely different understanding or approach on analysing the same topic. Given the topic: managing our online identity with either one or multiple identities, I have read so many different perspectives from how it can influence mental health to how dangerous it can be for our personal lives such as identity theft, just to mention one.
I have to highlight Sam Horstcraft‘s post.
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Topic 2: Reflection
From the beginning of this topic my stance was neutral, and it still is. However, by reading all the UOSM2008 blogs, I gained more insight on both sides of the debate. Thus, I created a poster which illustrates all the points made in those posts.
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Topic 2: Reflection
From the beginning of this topic my stance was neutral, and it still is. However, by reading all the UOSM2008 blogs, I gained more insight on both sides of the debate. Thus, I created a poster which illustrates all the points made in those posts.
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Topic 2: Reflection
From the beginning of this topic my stance was neutral., and it still is. However, by reading all the UOSM2008 blogs, I gained more insight on both sides of the debate. Thus, I created a poster which illustrates all the points made in those posts.
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TOPIC 2: Reflection
Many of the blogs this week gave a good general summary of the literature available on online identities and the use of examples made them more relatable to read, see for example Becca’s blog, which I commented on. Some blogs focussed in on specific areas, which was also interesting to read.
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Reflection – Multiple Online Identities
For topic 2 we looked at the benefits and issues around having multiple online identities. I learn quite a few things, both from my own research and others. Several models have contrasting views on the topic.
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Topic 2: Reflection
Multiple online identities have some clear advantages over having only one. As explained on Shriya’s blog they can be used as a marketing in order to reach niche audiences. Linkedin for example can be used to make professional connections within a specific professional community. However I didn’t agree that by using multiple identities you can remain anonymous, despite altering your persona on these different sites.
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Topic 2. Summary
At the beginning of the discussion about online identities, I was very undecided where I am standing in regard to creating my own. The modules I took during my degree course (Web Science) equipped me with knowledge that made me cautious and reluctant about any kind of excessive online presence, in particular building a comprehensive and detailed single online identity which would include lots of identifiers.
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Topic 2: Reflection
It’s clear from reading everybody’s blogs and comments on the issue of multiple identities that it is difficult to come up with a clear answer. There are some convincing arguments for such as employment reasons or verifiability and some persuasive arguments against such as anonymity and personal freedom.
However it’s clear to see that all of these points have 2 sides to them that one person may see as a positive and others may see as a negative.
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Topic 2: Reflection
Similar to topic one, topic two proved to teach a lot more than I originally thought. What appears to be the reasons for and against having one or more online identities introduces debates on social media, mental health, bullying, privacy and online safety.
I have summarised the main themes with some facts and images in the infographic below.
An interesting contribution to the topic was made by Sam.
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Checking copyright of images for blogposts
This question came up in the drop-in session today - the simple answer is if it's not obvious that the image owner allows it to be shared - then don't use it! Olja's post from last year provides helpful advice and suggests a few good places to find freely shareable images.
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Topic 2: Reflective Writing!
In the 21st century, using the web is becoming part of our daily lives, thereby evaluating if it is better to develop one or multiple online identities on Internet can be really useful. After analysing arguments of scholars such as Lewman or by reading some of the blog posts, it is undeniable that having multiple identities seem to present numerous advantages.
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Topic 2: Reflective Summary
There were some really great contributions to this weeks topic Ammaar’s post summarised the points for and against having a single online identity. He also highlighted that it is very rare that a user will have online one online profile and so they much choose whether the persona on each platform is the same or whether they should tailor it to each platform. This is something I touched upon in my comment on Holly’s blog in response to her post.
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Managing Your Online Identity
Today, Internet users are taking advantage of the many forms of social media to create an online persona. But which profile represents their true offline identity? Each website will create a partial identity, a persona, for the user based on a subset of their characteristics. Some may see this as advantage, others a lack of authenticity.
The most common reason to create more than one online identity is to differentiate your private and professional identity.
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Managing Online Identity
Online identities are an increasingly important concept in the age of the social Web. In the past, Internet users may have been more likely to experience the Web behind a shield of anonymity with few ties to their offline persona. Today however, it is likely that a person will have at least one online identity, if not multiple, as the ever expanding collection of web services and social networks ask us for more details about ourselves, and we willingly upload them.
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The Perils of Numerous Online Identities
This online identity topic has, much like the digital residents and visitors topic, an element of ambiguity for the different online identities which people can have and the level of anonymity these hold. An identity refers to what we do and who we are (Internet Society, 2006), so our online identity is an extension of this.
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The Perils of Numerous Online Identities
I’ve found in this online identity topic that, much like the first topic on digital residents and visitors, there is an element of ambiguity for the different online identities which people can have and the level of anonymity these hold. An identity refers to what we do and who we are (Internet Society, 2006).
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More than one online identity: What are the pros and cons?
With an increase in virtual lifestyles, people are spending more time on the web. With last week’s blog introducing digital residents & visitors, I started thinking how multiple online identities may affect a person’s security & anonymity online.
Online identity as defined by Costa and Torres (2011 pg. 49) is centred around two areas: Presentation & reputation.
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Topic Two: Online Identities
Managing our online identities is fast becoming an important ability as more and more of our activities, relationships and time is spent online. Whilst the Web previously afforded a veil of anonymity to its users, increasingly the services most people use expect an at minimum semi-public and authentic online identity, or at least a partial identity (Kroski, 2012).
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