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I decided to discuss the advantages & disadvantages of providing free music available online. I’ve acquired 6 main points attributing to this topic. Source: Rofini Zainal (Created by me on Piktochart) Recognition. This has come a up lot in the discussions. After reading through Stuart’s, Kemi’s and Jodie’s blogs. I have come to a conclusion that for a content producer, they would be able to gain more recognition, locally or globally, for their content. Continue reading →

As someone who wishes to focus on a music career after I finish my degree, I have always planned on releasing my own songs online, for free. Now if you click on the youtube or soundcloud links above, you’ll notice that I only have covers and I have a perfect reason for it. I am just not ready. Continue reading →

Source: My personal WhatsApp conversation with a friend. WhatsApp (WA), a business now owned by Facebook has grown to become one of the most successful online messaging service with over 990 million users (Olson 2016). A few weeks ago, prior to sending a text message to my friend on WA, I received the notification as shown on the right. It meant that WA was ensuring the safety measures taken to protect an individuals privacy on the messaging service. Continue reading →

Developing an authentic online professional profile is not an easy task, especially learning that having a LinkedIn is never enough. A lot of what I have read and discussed online has made me rethink about how I should develop a more authentic professional profile. More importantly, it has given me 2 important things to reflect upon. Instead of just promoting skills on LinkedIn, why not through Blogging? Source: Act-On (2015) http://blog.act-on. Continue reading →

The rise of social media has made looking for a job easier. Landing the job is a bit more difficult, but being able to develop an authentic professional profile online will overcome this. The importance of building your profile is about building your personal brand. Continue reading →

Topic 2 was all about managing our online identity. Personally, as I’ve mentioned I have one identity that I present online which reflects my real identity. This is because I agree with some readings regarding the linkage between your online identity and your real identity. I feel that they both intertwine and this is something that people should focus on instead of multiple online identities. Continue reading →

Everyone has their own identity based on their unique characteristics. However, because of greater developments and new social media infrastructure found on the web, online identity has started to grow as an offspring to ones offline (real identity). ‘Online identity’ is built through your interactions on the internet, whether you are simply clicking through advertisements or sharing information through social media websites (Internet Society 2016). Continue reading →

The first week was dedicated towards identifying the concepts of ‘Digital Visitors’ and ‘Digital Residents’. Through my understanding, I was clearly situated upon the fact that it is what we can do that would identify as a digital visitor or a digital resident. Personally, I put myself into a classification of both a visitor and a resident, however, I grew much more of an understanding about the concepts having since read others’ blogs and discussions. Continue reading →

We have already made a start to 2016 and are continuously seeing the steady growth of internet users, however, we aren’t always aware of the reasoning behind these uses. Sometimes we assume that people are simply living on the internet, but in some cases are focus on finding information. White (2008), outline 2 distinct categories of internet users. Continue reading →