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Throughout this module I have seen mine and my peers blogs flourish and grow which have provided some very intellectual debates and questioning. At the start of the module I completed a digital literacies self-test, in which I scored myself in different digital skills. The results of this first test can be read in my first blog post and are also included in the following table. Also in the table are the results of my re-evaluation of my digital literacy (1 is low and 5 is high). Continue reading →

Topic 5: Open Access to Online Content

Throughout the different posts on the blog over the past few weeks, I think I have made clear the benefit that the Web can bring to its users. One such incredibly-important way is through open access to online content. Open access is defined as “availability to all” and refers to the ability for anyone, anywhere to be able to access materials online for free at the point of access. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Summary

In the choice of topic this week, I chose to write a blog post on the digital divide. This is an important topic for me that I feel is a very important issue today. As I mentioned, the digital divide describes the difference in access or use of the Internet; such as phycsial access disparity between countries, or the difference in ability to effectively use the resources to complete a goal. Continue reading →

Topic Four: The Digital Divide – Social Media Ethics

The past half-century of technological development have seen the adoption and use of technology like the Web, smartphones and more become common in our lives. They realise the dreams of a global information communication system that had previously only been bound to ideas and dreams in such concepts as Well’s ‘World Brain’, Bush’s ‘Memex’ and Nelson’s ‘Xanadu’. Continue reading →

Topic 3: Reflection

This week saw the group writing about how one may create an authentic online profile; something we are constantly told we should do. With university-days coming to a near end for most of us, the most important thing on our minds is what we do next? In the constant search for employment post-uni having a professional-looking, authentic online profile is invaluable and may really help in securing a good job after. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Reflection

This week’s topic presented another wide range of interesting and insightful posts and it was great again to see what things different people talked about in relation to the topic of online identity. ‘Online identity’ covers such a wide range of things that it was difficult to talk about it all in such a small amount of words, something that others such as Shriya discussed too in her reflection of this topic. Continue reading →

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). Continue reading →

Topic One: Reflection

With the task of writing just a few hundred words around such a topic as this, it was a pleasant surprise to see the variation in how people approached the topic of digital visitors and residents. Through the initial research I did in preparation for writing my blog post on the topic and then reading my peers’ posts, I learned a lot more about the topic. Continue reading →