2015, Page 10

Reconsidering digital “visitors” and “residents”

Writing my first blog post (ever) wasn’t a walk in the park as I felt that I struggled to find a happy medium between an informal and formal voice, edging slightly closer to formality. However, I found that reading my colleagues’ posts was extremely useful and will give me more confidence in my next post. Continue reading →

Reconsidering digital “visitors” and “residents”

Writing my first blog post (ever) wasn’t a walk in the park as I felt that I struggled to find a happy medium between an informal and formal voice, edging slightly closer to formality. However, I found that reading my colleagues’ posts was extremely useful and will give me more confidence in my next post. Continue reading →

Digital Residents & Visitors: Reflecting on Topic 1

The first topic for UOSM2033 was an eye-opening discussion. I now know what exactly Digital Residents and Visitors are, while I had know idea such terms existed beforehand. It was interesting to realise how I was defined as a web user, and also to see how modern times are increasingly making online life the norm. Continue reading →

Digital Residents & Visitors: Reflecting on Topic 1

The first topic for UOSM2033 was an eye-opening discussion. I now know what exactly Digital Residents and Visitors are, while I had know idea such terms existed beforehand. It was interesting to realise how I was defined as a web user, and also to see how modern times are increasingly making online life the norm. Continue reading →

Reflection on digital visitors and residents

After writing my initial blog on the spectrum of digital residents to visitors, I have had the opportunity to review my peers’ thoughts on the matter. From what I gathered, the majority of the blogs I read support the same interpretation I had of White’s article being that the visitors and residents scale is a continuum of the two extremes where an individual can label their uses of each site they use based on their motives. Continue reading →

Reflection on digital visitors and residents

After writing my initial blog on the spectrum of digital residents to visitors, I have had the opportunity to review my peers’ thoughts on the matter. From what I gathered, the majority of the blogs I read support the same interpretation I had of White’s article being that the visitors and residents scale is a continuum of the two extremes where an individual can label their uses of each site they use based on their motives. Continue reading →

Topic 1: Reflective Summary

I’ve really enjoyed setting up my own blog and getting into the format of this module; I’ve never done anything like this at university before and it’s been fun to do something a bit different! It’s been really interesting reading everyone’s blogs and seeing how different each response is; it’s made me think about this subject more than I perhaps normally would. Continue reading →

Notes and question for Topic 2: online identity

Please read these brief notes and check out the links, before preparing and posting your answer to the set question. This document should be regarded as just the start of the discussions, which are then developed over the next two weeks through the conversations themselves and the sharing of further relevant links. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Digital Residents and Visitors

Since posting my thoughts on Digital Visitors and Residents I have had the chance to read a number of my colleague’s thoughts on the subject and reflect on what they have had to say. I find it interesting how, despite the labelling of the theory being 2 discrete categories, that the continuum between the extremes has been a clear interpretation of the theory by so many. Continue reading →

Time to say goodbye: Reflecting on Digital Visitors & Residents Theory

It’s time to say goodbye to topic one for UOSM2033. It feels like I wrote my first blog post only yesterday even though it’s been a whole week! Having now read my fellow students blogs I feel more clued up than ever before. For topic one, I discussed Prenskys’ aged classical theory of digital residents versus immigrants and the more generally accepted digital visitor and residents theory by White and Cornu. Continue reading →

Time to say goodbye: Reflecting on Digital Visitors & Residents Theory

It’s time to say goodbye to topic one for UOSM2033. It feels like I wrote my first blog post only yesterday even though it’s been a whole week! Having now read my fellow students blogs I feel more clued up than ever before. For topic one, I discussed Prenskys’ aged classical theory of digital residents versus immigrants and the more generally accepted digital visitor and residents theory by White and Cornu. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Visitors and Residents

Having read many of my fellow UOSM2033ers’ blog posts explaining the concept of digital visitors and residents, I’ve realised that this issue is much more complex than I considered when writing my own initial post on this topic. In my post I focused on explaining why Prensky’s (2001) concept of digital immigrants and natives is pretty irrelevant in this day and age and putting forward my own metaphor to explain how the digital world is a place, as White and Le Cornu claimed. Continue reading →

So how do we use the internet? A review of Digital Residents and Visitors.

Before looking into Digital Residents and Visitors I have never considered how people actually use the internet. Drawing from my own findings and the thoughts others had on my post, I realise that there are no simple categories that we can place people in when they use the internet. Furthermore, I did not consider the socio-economic factors that impact an individual’s use, and in some ways can limit to them to becoming a Digital Resident so remain a Digital Visitor. Continue reading →

Summary of Topic 1

Completing my first blog on the the topic ‘digital relatives and digital visitors’ seemed to come easily for me. However, looking back at it and comparing it with others view on the subject I now feel my answer is more opioniated rather than academically proved. Yes, the point of blogs is to involve a personal point of view however reading over my blog again I do feel I possibly rant about social media a bit more than is necessary. Continue reading →

Another look at ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’

It had never occurred to me that how people use the internet could be different, that their motives are not necessarily the same as my own. Silly, really, considering how everyone’s needs and interest’s differ. Reading the papers by White was helpful, but it was his you tube videos that really gave me the understanding I needed for my blog. Continue reading →

Another look at ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’

It had never occurred to me that how people use the internet could be different, that their motives are not necessarily the same as my own. Silly, really, considering how everyone’s needs and interest’s differ. Reading the papers by White was helpful, but it was his you tube videos that really gave me the understanding I needed for my blog. Continue reading →

Looking back at Topic 1

Well, this first fortnight of blogging has certainly been an eye-opening one. Hitherto I had not heard of the ‘residents’ and ‘visitors’ theory, yet now I am able to debate its merits and flaws with fellow bloggers whom I have only known for a few weeks. Continue reading →

Revisiting: Digital “Visitors” and “Residents”

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 →

Progress update: #UOSM2033 topic 1

Hi everyone Don't forget that your two comments should be posted by close of play today (14th) and your reflective summaries are due by end of Sunday, 18th Oct. You will then get individual feedback on Topic 1 as a whole by end of play on Tuesday 20th. As advised in the prevous message, don't forget that you need to give your posts a Category of "Topic 1" in order for them to display in the right section of the module blog. Continue reading →

A Spectrum of Users

It is quite apparent to me that the notion of digital natives and digital immigrants is outdated. I agree with Lanclos (2014) when she states that I didn’t just know how to use the internet and it’s related technologies like a first language as Prensky (2001) suggests. I wasn’t just born with a how-to manual embedded in my brain. Continue reading →