Tom Leese

Last week I wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of Open Access and what it means in terms of Creative Commons licensing and also education. This week I got the opportunity to learn more about open access in different areas. “There can never be enough open access!” Source Hannah wrote about open access in the music industry which I thought was very interesting and gave me the opportunity to have a discussion about streaming music services of which I use. Continue reading →

When I started my dissertation a year ago I couldn’t believe how many articles were not easily accessible to me. Either I would have had to pay to read some articles, or my university had to pay for me and I had to use the VPN. I don’t think that’s right. Education, learning and research is meant to be about sharing ideas and new knowledge to benefit society and the world as a whole. Continue reading →

As social media continues to explode in popularity, businesses are increasingly having to adapt to this new medium to stay relevant. There have been some great examples of social media use by companies in the last few years from Oreo, Pizza Hut and Burger King, but today I want to talk about some of the ethical issues related to social media. Continue reading →

Last week I wrote about how you can build a professional online profile, and after reading some other interesting blog posts and discussing ideas with people I’ve learnt even more! In Ellie’s blog post, she included some interesting statistics on the popularity of different social networking sites for employers which I found surprising (Facebook and Twitter were much closer to LinkedIn than I was expecting) and encouraged me to do some of my own research on this topic for my blog... Continue reading →

The explosion of online social media has no doubt affected how we communicate with our friends and family, but how has it affected recruitment? A paper by Nigel Wright Recruitment offers a detailed overview of how social media has transformed recruitment, from a mostly passive activity (posting job openings in newspapers, online job boards, etc) to one that is more active, and actually involves finding and approaching good looking candidates through platforms such as social media sites. Continue reading →

Just over a week ago I wrote about how and why some people may choose to maintain multiple identities. I knew that it was not uncommon for people to maintain different online identities, but it was not something I had ever done (or really considered) so I was fascinated to learn about other people’s experiences. I liked how Ellis spoke quite frankly at the end of her blog post about how she maintains multiple identities. Continue reading →

For some people their online identity is simply an extension of their offline identity: they use the same name, same picture and express the same ideas. For other people, their online identity could be very different: they might use a different name and express very different ideas. And of course, you’ll get people in between, who decide to maintain different identities that are shared with different people. Continue reading →

Last week I wrote a post about Digital Residents and Visitors which was a new concept to me and I found it interesting to learn about. After reading some more blogs on the topic and replying to some comments on my own, I’ve learnt a little more on the topic. Firstly, Clayton brought up an interesting point about teachers may find it hard to teach a generation of children who “speak a different language”. Continue reading →

A naïve pictographic representation of digital residents and digital visitors. Traditional names given to two different categories of users on the Web are digital natives and digital immigrants. [1] I’m sure you can imagine what they might mean, but a digital native is someone who has grown up in the digital world and is thus well-versed in technology and a digital immigrant is someone much older who has had to adapt and learn new technology, often struggling in the process. Continue reading →