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Digital Visitors VS Digital Residents

Digital Visitors and Residents are a simple way of describing how different individuals use the world wide web. This theory is useful in helping us understand why individuals use the web. Continue reading →

Digital Visitors VS Digital Residents

Digital Visitors and Residents are a simple way of describing how different individuals use the world wide web. This theory is useful in helping us understand why individuals use the web. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

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Introductory Topic

Digital natives are the generation of people born during or after the rise of digital technologies whilst digital immigrants are those born before the advent of digital technology (HuffPost, 2018). There are stark differences between digital visitors and residents. Visitors tend to only use platforms if they see it to be beneficial. Whilst remaining anonymous, they are unlikely to have any form of persistent profile online which shows who they are digitally. Continue reading →

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Slides from Introductory Lecture – 31/01/2018

You can download and review the slides from our first session here. Continue reading →

Categorising Blog Posts

Once you’ve written your post, you will need to assign a CATEGORY to it. If you do not, it will not appear on the module blog and no-one will be able to read it...! BEFORE hitting the 'publish' button... FIRST: Create and assign the relevant category: Click on ‘+add new category’ Type the appropriate name (e.g. Intro Topic, Topic 1, Topic 2 etc. Continue reading →

Intro Topic – Notes and Information

justaskbernie.ca Introductory Topic This as an opportunity to get into the swing of how the module works and familiarise yourself with the learning cycle, the deadlines and the self-assessment and feedback system. You will NOT be formally assessed on this topic, but you will get detailed individual feedback in exactly the same way as you will for the assessed topics 1 – 3. Continue reading →

Module Overview and Deadlines

heurion.com Overview What you have to do each week and all the important module deadlines are displayed for you in this one page quickview document. Continue reading →

Getting started – first steps

Getting started in week 1 This flowchart shows you all the steps you need to take in the first week. UOSM2008 2018 FlowDiagram You can also review the slides from the opening lecture. If you are unclear about what to do or how to do it, why not try asking your classmates on twitter..... Continue reading →

Welcome to UOSM2008 2018

Welcome! This is a module unlike most you'll have seen before. You can check out the module introduction video if you'd like to see how it works - but note: this video is a couple of years old and we now only have 3 summative topics (instead of 5). You should take time to read the study guide in detail, it is a key document. Continue reading →

A Reflection on Topic 4

Created using Canva With the number of internet users continuing to grow, considering that just over 3.5 billions people are able to access the internet (internetlivestats.com), there is an increasing pressure to ensure people use the internet ethically. Within Phil’s blog he focused on how social media generates a ‘lynch mob’ mentality in cases much like Justine Sacco, which we have explored previously. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Social Media Ethics

Created using Canva The advent of social networking sites has made all of us more connected and by doing so has allowed others to more easily contact each other. Some of those connections are positive but some are not. The format of social networking we see today began in the late 90s with ‘Six Degrees’, a social networking site that allowed users to create profiles and connect with others through existing relationships or through mutual interests (Boyd et al. 2007). Continue reading →

Social Media Giants-How they deal with ethical issues online.

According to Reference, ethical issues bring morality and principles into conflict and are more subjective and open to opinions and interpretation. Social media brings to light numerous ethical issues for example the issue of anonymity and privacy, freedom of speech and fake news. Social media giants (Facebook, Twitter) are slowly being forced to deal with these issues and held liable, rightly or wrongly. (S. Continue reading →