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Image: Getty Images Design: Ashley Britton/SheKnows In my previous post, we uncovered what it means to have multiple identities online: the fact that we need them to get jobs, we curate them for our followers or we protect them for the freedom of self-expression. We concluded that it is also very important to be wary of where our personal information ends up. Continue reading →

Source: American Nurse Today We all create different versions of ourselves online, either because we want to hold back from oversharing or because we want to match our image to the platform we’re using.     I choose to adapt what I share online. I created all types of identities, ranging from completely anonymous to mostly authentic. I do this so that I can separate my interests from personal profiles, which has been discussed by many prominent figures (Krotoski, 2012). Continue reading →

Source: Toby Morris for Radio NZ Main post can be found here. “The old dispute between reason and feeling is now on a new ground.“ (Popescu, 2017) In my main post, I mainly concentrated on describing the issues and pervasiveness of the post-truth era that we face today, while also giving some examples of how a normal Internet user would be able to stay protected. You can guess that the story barely unfolded at that moment. Continue reading →

Source: Edutopia, by Shutterstock The term post-truth refers to the overlooking of facts in favour of emotional or personal beliefs. It has become such a hot topic in the last few years that it even became Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year in 2016, due to its extensive use during events such as Brexit and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. On the Internet, the term fake news has been used much more than post-truth, being popularised by people like President Donald Trump. Continue reading →

Credit: Getty Images Sourced from: Wired Original analytical post can be found here. The last two weeks have been nothing short of surprising as I discovered the nooks and crannies of an old, but very actual subject, that of digital differences. After researching the topic and putting together my blog post, I had a few fellow bloggers leave me some very interesting questions regarding the subject. Continue reading →

Illustration by Tim Lahan for MIT Technology Review Heads up! Credits to pictures can be seen when hovering over them. We all use the Internet differently, and that not only says something about us, but also about the society we live in. Going at the roots, we encounter the term ‘digital divide’, the gap between the populations of accessing digital technology. Researchers have already identified an extensive list of why it is happening and Robinson et al. Continue reading →

Illustration by Tim Lahan for MIT Technology Review Heads up! Credits to pictures can be seen when hovering over them. We all use the Internet differently, and that not only says something about us, but also about the society we live in. Going at the roots, we encounter the term ‘digital divide’, the gap between the populations of accessing digital technology. Researchers have already identified an extensive list of why it is happening and Robinson et al. Continue reading →

Image courtesy of: OCLC Research My first dive into the subject of ‘digital residents’ versus ‘digital immigrants’ proved to be much more insightful and no opinion I read is the exact same. The first step was to understand everything a little better; it started with some additional reading. Continue reading →

As times progress, the terminologies in internet-related studies change. We started the 21st century with a different outlook on defining the different generations of people in the modern digital age, with Mark Prensky’s 2001 article, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants. Continue reading →