2015, Page 9

Multiple Online Identities – How concerned should you be about your privacy?

The web is a useful communication tool, both for making connections and maintaining existing ones. However, as with anything, there is a balance between publicity and privacy that every user should try to maintain. Online profiles can be a great way to update contacts and make connections, both professionally and personally. The benefits of having multiple online profiles is that you can choose to set up how different people perceive you and what content they can see. Continue reading →

Online Personas: should you wear many masks online?

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 →

pros and cons of multiple online identities

Cyberspace is huge. Not even huge, it’s massive: a never ending black hole of everything and anything you could ever imagine. So it comes as no surprise that people sometimes have more than one online identity. In this post, I will focus on the pros and cons of having multiple identities and personas online. (photo – google images) Today, authentic identities tend to be the base of our social media interactions. Continue reading →

Online Identity: One or more?

Our digital identity develops alongside our digital footprint as we engage with online spaces. Nowadays, occupying more than one online identity is extremely common. I will be discussing the arguments for and against, using my own examples, in order to shed some light on the topic. The first advantage of having more than one online identity stems from Costa and Torres’ (2011) idea that multiple online identities increase our reachability. Continue reading →

Online identities: ‘yes, dog, you can have a profile – so long as you maintain it ethically.’

This pertinent debate links very naturally to the previous topic: digital literacy and approach towards web usage are fundamental issues in addressing the ethics, maintenance, and dangers of online identity. The arguments for having multiple identities focus on both personal and mass benefit to users. Aleks Krotoski suggested in The Guardian that psychologists advocate the freedom to explore various characters online as a means of exploring your own ‘identity’. Continue reading →

One person, multiple identities – the pros and cons of having multiple online identities

When considering the advantages and disadvantages of having multiple identities, I believe it’s necessary to consider what we actually use the internet for. As I discussed last week, a digital visitor may primarily use the internet for shopping or online banking and thus may not feel the need to have multiple accounts across social media. But that’s not to say they don’t have an online identity. Continue reading →

The Digital Masked Ball

Picture taken from: http://www.myenglishclub.com/profiles/blogs/masquerade-ball-of-ec Digital Identity is an often overlooked concept by people today. Yet it is becoming more and more significant as the internet evolves. Cristina Costa and Ricardo Torres (2011) discuss this in their article. They note two phases of E-learning. The first phase is where users are quite passive in their learning experience merely accessing and consuming resources available. Continue reading →

The Multiple Online Identity Debate Explained

This is Sir Ragglesworth, fondly known as RAG Bear. He’s SUSU RAG’s mascot and for the last 2 years, RAG (or Raise and Give, the student fundraising organisation at the university) has been using Sir Ragglesworth’s Facebook (and even Tinder) page to promote fundraising events. Mark Zuckerberg, as Krotoski tells us in her article, is cracking down on profiles without a flesh and blood owner, and RAG Bear has been one of the casualties. Continue reading →

Playing Hide and Seek: the pros and cons of Multiple Online Indentities

It is our choice as to how people perceive us online. What people see is what we put out there, in a way this can be a blessing or curse. As most of us know, what we do put online will forever be online (Aresta et al.) and everything is linked, from Facebook to Linked In. Continue reading →

Online or Offline?

Discuss the arguments for and against having more than one online identity. An online identity is a sum of characteristics that a person may not always be able to control. According to The Internet Society we create partial identities which we use to build individual personas to represent ourselves online; there is no limit to how many you can have. This blog post will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of having more than one online identity. Continue reading →

IDENTITY OR IDENTITIES USING ANONYMITY AND AUTHENTICITY

In real life, there aren’t many situations where it is useful to be anonymous, (Vronay, 2014) but online, anonymity gives you the freedom to express yourself or parts of yourself without exposure. Jeff Jarvis criticises multiple online identities whilst acknowledging there is a place for anonymity referring to corporate whistle-blowers and Chinese dissidents (Jarvis, 2011) however, he doesn’t consider other vulnerable individuals, or inequality. Continue reading →

topic 1

Question: Explain the concept of digital “visitors” and “residents” drawing upon your reading and your own online experiences to date in support of the points that you make. With the developing technologies, internet could makes things get easier and more convenient. Thus there appear two kinds of people from the internet – visitors and residents. Residents Residents usually make the internet as a part of life. Continue reading →

Some comments on your own blogs

It was great to see the many creative styles you have adopted when setting up your own blogs. Don't forget though, that in addition to addressing the 5 topics through the module, you are supposed to work on building your own digital presence which you then reflect on at the end in the second assessed task. We don’t mark this going through the module, but remember that it is a continual process not something you can cobble together quickly at the end. Continue reading →

General feedback on topic 1

Thanks for all your topic 1 contributions. Your individual feedback is on its way to you tonight via Gmail but here are a few general comments: Most of you quite correctly decided that the original “digital native” argument has limited value, but it is interesting that the term has caught on in the popular press and you will still find many uncritical references in the media to young people as “digital natives”. Continue reading →

Digital Visitors and Digital Residents: Reflection

When reflecting on this topic the aspect I found the most interesting wasn’t so much the topic but the task itself. Anything I had written in the past was written for my own sake, or was a short comment or Facebook post on something else. I’d only ever written something I wanted to read, and never really thought about writing something that other people would want to read. Continue reading →

Digital Visitors and Digital Residents: Reflection

When reflecting on this topic the aspect I found the most interesting wasn’t so much the topic but the task itself. Anything I had written in the past was written for my own sake, or was a short comment or Facebook post on something else. I’d only ever written something I wanted to read, and never really thought about writing something that other people would want to read. Continue reading →

Reflection – am I a digital visitor or resident?

Hitherto starting this module, there were many things I hadn’t tried nor ever heard of. I had never used WordPress independently before, I had never commented on someone else’s’ blog post and I had never heard of Prensky’s troublesome dichotomy of the digital “native”/”immigrant”, let alone David White’s new and improved theory. Continue reading →

Topic 1: Reflection

My first lesson in this module has been an interesting one. I had never really considered the motivations behind using the internet, let alone categorising them. The framing of users though is a beneficial task as it helps research by allowing identification as a user. When we can identify things it helps us better understand and notice them in the real world. Continue reading →

Topic 1: Reflection

My first lesson in this module has been an interesting one. I had never really considered the motivations behind using the internet, let alone categorising them. The framing of users though is a beneficial task as it helps research by allowing identification as a user. When we can identify things it helps us better understand and notice them in the real world. Continue reading →

Reflection upon ‘visitors and residents’

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 →