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What have I learnt? Over the course of the module I have engaged in many different areas of the digital world. The following video summarizes the key points I have picked up from each topic. Figure 1: Self made summary video using Stupeflix. Photo credits: http://groovyman.com/2016/11/23/how-is-identity-shaped/; https://www.hallaminternet.com/how-to-display-your-wordpress-blog-posts-on-linked-in/; https://www.hsj.co. Continue reading →

This week focused on open access, with my post leading to discussions on respectability, the advantages and disadvantages of open access over peer reviewed journals, ideas of the knowledge underclass and differences between those in developed and developing countries . From three contributors a wide range of topics were discussed, showing how complex the topic of open access is, with many differing views on whether open access is the way forward. Continue reading →

As more of us than ever are using the internet globally, it makes sense that more content is being made available online to us too. Accessing content online means that we can look at it on the go and use more than one source at a time. The majority of articles that are accessed for my modules are through university paid subscriptions, which had I had to pay for myself, I’m not sure that I would have used them at all. Continue reading →

This week we focused on ethical issues related to social media and businesses. Consequently this led to a road range of topics being discussed in the blogs. Personally mine was focused on the ideas of confidentiality in the workplace and what can happen if this is broken, and how workplaces are attempting to prepare and prevent professionals from getting into trouble by breaking confidentiality agreements. Continue reading →

For Topic 4 I have decided to focus my post on the ideas of confidentiality when professionals use social media. Perhaps they may be posting about their day or something that they experienced, and this may consequently break confidentiality. Key professions where this is likely to be an issue include healthcare professionals, the police and those in law professions, who have access to personal information that could help to identify individuals. Continue reading →

Figure 1: Key words from Topic 3. This weeks posts led me to Alexander’s  and David’s blogs, unfortunately Alex didn’t reply to his comments this week. However David did, which led us to become engaged in a discussion about what exactly makes up an authentic online identity. Continue reading →

The digital age has not only had an effect on our private lives, but also our professional ones, including the ways in which we are being recruited, meaning that more of us are being recruited online. Figure 1: What do recruiters look for in a profile? LinkedIn remains the recruiters top social networking site of choice, however this doesn’t necessarily mean that this is only digital tool that we should be using to create an authentic profile. Continue reading →

Figure 1: Parts of the debate I have engaged in to do with online identities. This week’s topic of online identities has definitely had an effect on my online presence and the ways in which I put out my own identity onto the internet, one way in which I have adapted this, is by changing my privacy settings on services such as Facebook and Twitter, in order to help protect it, and make it more private than it was. Continue reading →

Figure 1: Some of the Key Ideas in the Single vs Multiple Online Identities Debates Single vs Multiple Identities When it comes to online identity, there are many debates on whether having more than one online identity is acceptable. Continue reading →

Starting the module with the concepts of digital residents and visitors has meant that I have begun to delve into the digital world, and see that it is far more complex, and that there is much to think about when it comes to how, when, where and why people access the digital world. Because of this it has meant that I now understand that I myself am towards the digital resident end of the spectrum, and it have begun to see just how the digital world really is more of a place, rather than a tool. Continue reading →

Natives and Immigrants to Residents and Visitors Digital residents and visitors ideas stem from the theory of natives and immigrants, proposed by Prensky in 2001, based on the idea that as current young generations have spent their lives growing up immersed in technology, they are ‘natives’ to the digital world, whereas older generations are ‘immigrants’ as they have to adopt new practices in the digital age (Prensky, 2001). Continue reading →