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As you may know, landing your dream job in this saturated job market, whilst negotiating frantic online traffic, can be difficult. The ‘Fourth Economy’, which allows us to exploit the internet to attract attention, means authentic online professional profiles can be a lucrative way to gain a necessary edge over countless competitors. Continue reading →

An abundance of information, themes and opinions concerning online identity produced variety between my peers’ blog posts, yielding acutely effective mutual learning. The online persona debate questions how many digital identities we should acquire, the pursuit for anonymity and their knock-on effects. A comment on my blog revealed that previously, I did not adequately question the extent to which we can relocate our real-life prismatic identity online. Continue reading →

An abundance of information, themes and opinions concerning online identity produced variety between my peers’ blog posts, yielding acutely effective mutual learning. The online persona debate questions how many digital identities we should acquire, the pursuit for anonymity and their knock-on effects. A comment on my blog revealed that previously, I did not adequately question the extent to which we can relocate our real-life prismatic identity online. Continue reading →

An abundance of information, themes and opinions concerning online identity produced variety between my peers’ blog posts, yielding acutely effective mutual learning. The online persona debate questions how many digital identities we should acquire, the pursuit for anonymity and their knock-on effects. A comment on my blog revealed that previously, I did not adequately question the extent to which we can relocate our real-life prismatic identity online. Continue reading →

An abundance of information, themes and opinions concerning online identity produced variety between my peers’ blog posts, yielding acutely effective mutual learning. The online persona debate questions how many digital identities we should acquire, the pursuit for anonymity and their knock-on effects. A comment on my blog revealed that previously, I did not adequately question the extent to which we can relocate our real-life prismatic identity online. Continue reading →

An abundance of information, themes and opinions concerning online identity produced variety between my peers’ blog posts, yielding acutely effective mutual learning. The online persona debate questions how many digital identities we should acquire, the pursuit for anonymity and their knock-on effects. A comment on my blog revealed that previously, I did not adequately question the extent to which we can relocate our real-life prismatic identity online. Continue reading →

Photo Credit: Reginald Chan via Compfight cc In the past the internet provided ripe opportunity to fabricate fictitious online personas protected behind a veil of anonymity. The evolution of the web has made this challenging however, phasing out the previously opaque links between your online and actual identities for more transparent ones. It has become therefore, that our online identities provide a platform to exhibit our offline assets, both socially, professionally and otherwise. Continue reading →

My comprehension of digital ‘residents’ and ‘visitors’ markedly developed after fellow group members circulated their blogs exploring the topic. Digital residency distinguishes between types of internet users with reference to exactly how and why individuals engage in the web. For me, acknowledging the ‘visitors’ and ‘residents’ concept as a spectrum remains crucial to it’s success. Continue reading →

As we advance through the digital age, the internet is indisputably an intrinsic feature of many of our routines, and it seems that some of us are more immersed than others. The alleged digital native/immigrant divide (Prensky, 2001), appropriates age in order to categorise our online proficiency. Digital natives or the ‘N-gen’ grew up with the internet and possess a superior understanding of its concepts, hence renovating their attitude to education and socialisation. Continue reading →