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I felt like most of the other posts this week focused more on the open access debate than other types of content producers. It was interesting reading Tom’s blog and his take on open source software. As a computer scientist it was very useful learning about what constitutes open source and learning about the impact that it can have on bug fixes and communities adding to your software. Continue reading →

The common model for producers of music artists for years has been to create music and then sell it which seems like quite a good business model. With the rise of the internet this model has been blown out of the water as content can easily be distributed between people for free which means that artists are having to come up with other ways of earning money. Continue reading →

This week I decided to try and cover a much more controversial topic. I tried to cover the question from a much closer look at one particular issue as opposed to trying to touch on as many issues about the question as I could. Most people seemed to write about the ethics of companies spying on their customers and collecting their data. This seems to be addressing the same problem that I addressed but from a different angle; the great amount of spying that can happen online. Continue reading →

There is a large compromise that needs to be made between parents and their kids as living in the modern world has its problems. There are so many scare stories of the horrors of the internet with children meeting with strangers and the posting of information online that it can be a struggle for parents to keep on top of what their child is up to. Many people feel that the best way to solve these problems is through using spying software to check on what exactly their child is up to. Continue reading →

This weeks topic created some divide between ways to approach the question we were given. Some people created how to guides and step-by-step instructions on what you can do to create a better online profile whereas others focused more on the impacts of having a good professional profile. Russell wrote a very interesting blog post where he clearly outlined the steps he felt were necessary to create a professional online profile. Continue reading →

Social Media LinkedIn is the largest professional network in the world with over 400 million users and this is still rapidly increasing with 2 new people joining every second. Keeping your LinkedIn profile up to date is very important as you never know who could next look at your profile. It is also important to keep all information on your profile summarised so that people can quickly and easily find out the most important information about you. Continue reading →

This fortnight my blog post focused on the positive and negative aspects of having multiple online identities which raises lots of ethical issues about privacy and the use of fake accounts. I found that Russell Kingsfield’s blog raised some very good points to do with the privacy aspect of this topic. He shows the problems that would come with having no anonymity online and how it would affect how whistleblowers are able to release information. Continue reading →

There are many different reasons that people would have multiple profiles online, but not all of them are as dangerous as they may seem. Many people over the course of the internet’s history have lied about their identity for many different reasons but these were mainly for fraudulent and criminal activities. Continue reading →

Having reflected upon the other blog posts and talking with people about the topic I feel that what I concluded in my original blog post was incorrect. I feel that my analogy to do with troubleshooting may have not been the best because I feel I misunderstood the ‘visitors and residents’ theory. I thought that it was to do with trying to class different computer users into two categories but what it is actually to do with trying to class people on what ways they use the internet. Continue reading →

Visitors and residents are two distinct types of individuals that use the internet according to an academic journal written by David S. White and Alison Le Cornu. The idea of the journal is to update the much older versions of individuals that use the internet, natives and immigrants. Continue reading →

Visitors and residents are two distinct types of individuals that use the internet according to an academic journal written by David S. White and Alison Le Cornu. The idea of the journal is to update the much older versions of individuals that use the internet, natives and immigrants. Continue reading →