Currently browsing author

Tom Davidson

Web Science Undergraduate at the University of Southampton. I am one of the two editors of the blog Business School Student-led blog, and also behind the Twitter account, along with others. Some of the posts will be written by me, but most will not. Hopefully you will find all equally as enjoyable, and I will ensure not to take credit for other's work! I also blog about my work as a DigiChamp at the University of Southampton, so you'll find me knocking around there as well! For more info about me please visit my website www.tjdav.me.uk

Twitter Homepage RSS

Reflection on being part of a Construction

Introduction Figure 1: Reflecting on being part of a construction I completed the UOSM2008: Living and Working on the Web module. This module was very different from other modules I have completed, offering a greater level of freedom in my work, and less face-to-face contact time than other modules. Whilst some of the content overlapped with other modules, particularly those I completed in which were core to Web Science. Continue reading →

Reflection: Business and Personal – one and the same?

It is remarkable to me that we are already nearly at the end of this module (almost as remarkable as the fact we’ve had only two lectures in that time!). I really enjoyed writing about and exploring this topic, as it has lots of practical use for me, as I utilise many social media accounts and channels but have never really thought about why, or how I do so. Reading other people’s posts was great, as I managed to get an understanding beyond just my own research. Continue reading →

Single Identity vs Multiple Identities – what’s best for you?

Copyright the New Yorker Collection 1993. Peter Steiner From cartoonbank.com. All rights reserved. Since the New Yorker published their now-famous cartoon in 1993 (Fleishman, 2000) the idea that no one knows who you are online has “run and run and run” (Cavna, 2013). Cartoonist Peter Steiner’s take on online identity marked the start of a debate between a single online identity or multiple. Continue reading →

Fact or Fiction…or Fake?!

Introduction I am beginning to wonder if this module is a sort of crystal ball, running parallel to my dissertation! Just as other topics did (Digital Divide and Digital Residency) fake news links very strongly to my work. It is a quite a complex phenomenon and I have therefore prepared this short video, providing some definitions and some examples. Continue reading →

Divide-ing: Opinions!

This week on UOSM2008, we covered the Digital Divide. I attempted to explore this as a concept and look at my own experiences. This was enlightening but differently to how I thought. Instead of finding that there were certain ways in which I had been limited by my circumstances, I instead found myself to be very lucky in terms of the access and support I had regarding digital technology. Continue reading →

Digital Differences Discovery!

Fig 1: My Representation of van Dijk’s conceptualisation of Digital Users Digital Differences is a concept I find is often overlooked, so I was pleased to have time to explore the concept. In Web Science, I looked it Digital Differences last year in Prof Susan Halford’s excellent SOCI3073 module. I noticed that this module chimed closely with Section 1.11 of the Learning in the Network Age MOOC. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Residency

Made in Canva Reflecting on this introductory topic was, for me, a useful process. Following on from the lecture on Friday 16th, I began to think about what I had learnt about the topic, and my own Digital Residency. I had preconceptions of the concept of Digital Residency, and I explored these through my own self-assessment. This, in turn, led me to realise that my own position on the Digital Residency scale was not quite where I felt it was before reflecting on it. Continue reading →