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In my initial blog on this topic, I focused mostly on the academic aspect of Open Access. But the principle of Open Access can stretch across many mediums. Jamie’s blog talked about Open Access from the perspective of streaming services allowing people access to vast libraries of content. Sophie’s blog discussed Open Access from a content creators perspective. […] The post Reflection: Open Access appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

You’d be hard pressed to find a student or scientist who is against the concept of Open Access. After all, information is power and power belongs to the people. But at the same time people also deserve to be compensated for their work. How do you reconcile these two competing ideas in a society that reflects the value of […] The post Open Access: Can It All Be So Simple? appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

Privacy is an important concept to me. It’s something I’ve been aware of since an early age, the idea that I should be entitled to be able to expect a degree of privacy from my parents. They always said they’d never snoop through my things – they always instead asked that I talk to them about any […] The post Revisiting: Privacy versus Security in Social Media appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I highly value the right to privacy and the anonymity that comes along with that. Whether that be the act of maintaining multiple personas online for a variety of purposes or if you wish to use the internet as a tool and not have a profile collected about how you […] The post Privacy versus Security in Social Media appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

In my original post I talked a lot about methods of hosting your content and presenting yourself, how it’s important that you have control over your own image, but I didn’t touch much on how to actually market yourself – which is arguably just as important as the image you are presenting. You can have […] The post Revisiting: Professional Profiles appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

Building an online presence can be tricky if you haven’t delved into it before. There are a few key things to keep in mind when developing your profile, of which some may seem obvious. The first step in developing your online presence needs to be to create a unique identifier for yourself. You need to stand […] The post Building a Professional Online Profile appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

When initially talking about this topic, I focused on the online personas that are created under a users own agency. After reading this post I realise that I forgot to look at one of the important aspects of online profiles, and that is the profiles that are created for us. This is something that expands on my previous point […] The post Revisiting: Online Personas appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

As the internet first became a place to hang out, having a pseudonym while you operated online was fairly commonplace. No way would you want to have your online handle associated to your real identity. Then social media became a thing. Suddenly there was this large incentive to start forging yourself a persistent online identity. Companies helped to […] The post Online Personas: should you wear many masks online? appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

Upon reading other peoples thoughts on visitors and residents, it has helped me to shape my own views with a bit more clarity. Originally I was of the mind that this was more of a binary scale, such as the original natives and immigrants. You were a “resident”, or you were a “visitor”. But the idea of a continuum, highlighted in […] The post Revisiting: Digital “Visitors” and “Residents” appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →