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It’s only the beginning…

Despite the fact that I’m young a girl born in a technological era, saying that I did not know how to make the most of the web is an euphemism. A couple of months ago, I barely used the most common forms of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, hence I had never imagined myself blogging every week and, even less, liking it. This course was not only a challenge but also a great opportunity to learn. The topics were really engaging throughout the whole module. Continue reading →

Reflection: Topic 5

Source: Open Access Belgium This week’s topic was particularly interesting as all students have been confronted at least once in their life to the problems that lack of Open Access can cause. However, considering the problem from the writer’s standpoint pushed us to think deeper about the issue. The majority of the blogs  compared the advantages and disadvantages of OA in the academic field, but Rofini and Rebekah have addressed the topic in a different way. Continue reading →

Open Access

Source: Stephen Morris/iStockphoto As a final year student, evaluating whether the information available online should be made free really concerns me. I believe every student can relate to the frustrating situation in which you believe you have found the perfect source for your research but when clicking on it you realize that you cannot access it. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflection

Source: The World Street Journal This week topic was peculiar as it allows every student to independently choose which issue they thought was the most able to be brought by an educational or a business use of social media. Hence, the blogs were centred on a range of topics. I argued in my blog that a business use of social media was seriously putting at risk a company’s entitlement to integrity. Continue reading →

Social media putting company’s integrity at risk

Freedom of speech is defined by the Oxford Dictionaries as ‘the power or right to express one’s opinions without censorship, restraint or legal penalty’. Social media seem to represent a platform where freedom of speech can be expressed without any constraint. Everywhere, people who have access to internet can share their thoughts and ideas about controversial topics and delicate issues. Continue reading →

Reflective statement : Topic 3

  Source: https://s3.amazonaws.com/eclincher.wp.upload/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/25170918/2.png How do people can increase their employability prospects on the web is a puzzling question. Today, statistics show that the question is not if social media can help us secure a job, because the answer will clearly be affirmative, it is rather how can I create a strong online professional presence. Continue reading →

Topic 3: The hard task of making the most of social media!

As a young girl born in a technological era, I witness the rise of social media. I was aware that the different social networks could be used for personal reasons and for professional ones. However, I never fully understood the degree of importance that social media could have on our likeliness to obtain a job or not. By doing some researches and looking at the Jobvite survey results, I realized that recruiters really take into account social media when hiring someone. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Reflective post 1

At the beginning of the 21st century, Mark Prensky found that internet users can be identified either as digital native, which represent all the 90’s kids and younger generation that were born into the digital world, or digital immigrants, which would not possess all the natural abilities of the younger generation for using internet. Continue reading →

Not everyone from the new generation is a digital ‘native’!

  At the beginning of the 21st century it was assumed by a plurality of scholars that the 90s generation and onwards could all use all online facilities with great ease as they were born in a digital and technological world. Mark Prensky referred to them as digital ‘native’. The opposite was digital ‘immigrant’, someone born before the 90s who could have learned about the new technologies but for whom it would have never be natural to use the web (Prensky, 2001). Continue reading →