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Open access is a topic that I have studied previously during my course, and last week’s blog post caused me to revisit the debate. Previously, my focus had primarily been on open access within academia, but after reading the blog posts of others, I have now realised that the debate can be extended to all online content in some respects. For example, the music industry is one that has been rocked by innovative new methods of distribution, namely streaming. Continue reading →

Open Access is an initiative to widen the availability of content, such as information and even entertainment, to a larger audience who might have been previously out of access due to prohibitive costs, through the distributive powers of the Internet. It is an issue that has been increasing in importance as many traditional methods of information and research dissemination, have become increasingly expensive (e.g. Continue reading →

Below are links to both of my comments. Continue reading →

In the increasingly networked society we live in, for those wanting to stay connected, avoiding the use of social media seems impossible. Social networks such as Facebook have grown to a massive scale, and now exist as a platform where multiple independent parties can interact, be it people, businesses, political parties, charities, etc. Continue reading →

Reading through the blogs of others has caused me to consider new aspects of online authentic profiles that I had not thought of before. In my original post, I highlighted the importance of trying to find a good balance for how much information you should include about yourself on professional social media sites such as LinkedIn – not too little as an employer will want to find out about you, and not too much as you don’t want an overload of information. Continue reading →

In the modern workplace it has become increasingly important to have an authentic professional digital presence. Employers like it when they can see that a potential employee has invested time in maintaining an online presence be it in the form of a blog, or their own website, or even on professional social media sites just as LinkedIn. It shows initiative, and you would be surprised at the opportunities that can arise from being noticed online [6]. Continue reading →

This week’s topic has helped me to think about online identity in ways I hadn’t before. First of all, it got me thinking about my own online identity. In my previous post, I mentioned that I have multiple online identities that could be split up into personal, very personal, and professional – and in a comment, someone asked me to elaborate on this. Continue reading →

  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. Continue reading →

Since posting my summary on Digital Visitors and Digital Residents, I have read the views presented on the blogs of others and been presented with things I had not considered before. The most interesting to me was the statement on Agnieszka’s blog that one’s position on the visitor/resident spectrum is likely to change at different stages in one’s lifetime. My current position being closer towards the resident end is due to my current situation. Continue reading →

Prensky (2001) illustrates the difference between what he sees as two distinct types of tech and Web users: digital natives, and digital immigrants. Those who fall into the former category are people young enough to have grown up in a period when modern technology and the Web are already pervasive and established aspects of life; in fact they are so familiar with it, it is almost as if they have learned its use as instinctively as they learned their primary language. Continue reading →