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Social media providers managing user-generated content: we are all the regulators? Topic 4 reflection

Reflecting on Topic 3, I suggested viewing residential engagement as an opportunity and less a challenge. Challenges continued, including disparities between when colleagues posted comments and reflections over the Easter Vacation Period, but discussions with Raziya, Mark and Patricia about key ethical issues connected to social media reflected continued opportunities available. Continue reading →

Social media provider’s ethical data management: regulating content to breach or create privacy?

Many ethical issues relate to business’ social media use: one particularly significant issue are the ways social media providers, the businesses providing services, manage the data users create on platforms. Facebook, Google, Twitter and other providers have corporate interests tied within the large data economies, with fiscal economic value attached(Gerlitz and Helmond, 2013). Continue reading →

A qualitative approach to authentic online professional profiles: create an authentic fairy-tale through usage

Employers and employees increasingly use online profiles for professional purposes, like recruitment, sackings and verification (JobVite, 2014), raising many strategies through which to develop authentic online professional profile, as the following PowToon discusses: Each strategy is unified around usage, definable as any user-driven interaction, which unlocks many authenticity strategies. Continue reading →

Manging multiple identities: you are who you are? Topic 2 reflection

Reflecting on Topic 1, I mentioned the difficulties shifting visitor-driven behaviour to residential behaviour. Despite encountering fewer WordPress teething problems this week, residential challenges remained: posting a comment on Callum and Harriet’s blog involved an issue with two different URLs blog structures meaning my second comment displayed later than I’d have liked. Continue reading →

For and against multiple online identities: We are who applications and other users say we are

Web ‘Technological advancements’ arguably shape how we should manage multiple online identities. Having moved from a static ‘Read’ Web towards a social, dynamic interactive, collaborative and networked Read-Write Web (Costa and Torres, 2011) Cyberspace engagement increasingly requires digital identification: users purportedly navigate and negotiate identity by creating and managing ‘multiple’ online identities. Continue reading →

From a lost visitor, to a ‘mapped’ Visitor-Resident: Topic 1 Reflection

Having created and configured my first WordPress blog and Twitter account , I found adjusting to both platforms challenging on technical and social fronts: WordPress’ freemium technical configurations are dissimilar to the ‘good practice’ conventions I developed in personal and academic HTML development. A GUI-based HTML editor mixing code and output is very different to ‘raw’ HTML. Continue reading →