Month: May 2021

●  What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?

Nowadays, students use lots of digital platforms to study, work, and social contact. For me, I most use Brightspace, ZOOM, Mattermost, YouTube, WeChat, LinkedIn, and Tik-Tok. Due to COVID-19, digital platforms become more and more important to us. I usually use Brightspace, ZOOM, and Mattermost to study. Watching YouTube and Tik-Tok is my way to entertaining. WeChat is my most used social tool. At the same time, as a student near graduation, Linkedln is helpful for me to find a job in my field of study.

●  What can you (as a student) consider to expand your professional learning network?

I think as a student, blog is a good way to expand the professional learning network. Every student can post their own ideas on the blog, read others’ ideas and communicate through comments. At the same time, it’s important to set up a good image on the digital platform. A good image will make others more willing to communicate.

●  In your network, how can you create a digital identity/reputation?

I think the most important thing in creating a digital identity is to stay close to life without giving away your privacy. We can post some daily photos, funny things in life on the digital platform. This will make others feel the authenticity of our digital identity, more willing to communicate with us, and it will also give us a digital reputation. However, it is also important for us to protect our privacy. We should avoid giving away important information such as our ID, mobile phone number and home address on digital platforms.

●  Consider what a local employer would do if you applied for a job with them – can they search the content, is it of benefit to the career path, does it hinder the opportunity of employment?

Every action we take on a digital platform leaves a trail. When we apply for a job, employers may search for us on digital platforms, such as Facebook. What we say on digital platforms affects how we are perceived by employers. So we have to be careful when building digital reputations on digital platforms. A good digital reputation can make us more competitive in the job market, while a bad digital reputation can cause us to miss out on valuable job opportunities.

REFERENCE

V&R MAP: http://experimental.worldcat.org/vandrmapping/signIn

Privacy, Ethics & Security in Digital Spaces Developing Awareness of Privacy https://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/quizzes/privacy-and-surveillance/ Regan, P., & Jesse, J. (2019).

The Digital Visitor and Resident Continuum White. D. (2017).V and R Mapping. Retrieved from http://daveowhite.com/vandr/vr-mapping/

• What does it mean to network using social media?

Social media means that we can socialize online, such as meet people from all over the world. We can also receive real-time news of the world through the network.

• How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?

With the advent of the information age, social media has become ubiquitous. Social media are indispensable for communication, study, and entertainment. In fact, a person who does not use social networks at all would not be able to study and socialize properly in today’s society. That makes us have to participate in network publics.

At the same time, social media is attractive to us. We can find any video we are interested in on YouTube, we can share our lives on Instagram, and we can make friends with people from all over the world on Facebook. That’s also the motivation we participate in network publics.

• What are the risks & rewards of public communications?

Public communication has both risks and rewards.

The reward is, public communication will speed up the transmission of information. For example, some of what we know comes from others’ sharing, and we also share what we know to others.

The risk is, it is inevitable that some statements will lead the unthinking person in the wrong direction. Such public communication sometimes involves political topics, which is not good. At the same time, social networks have memories. Speech posted in a digital identity will follow us. It is harmful to our privacy.

• What is a digital identity?

Digital identity can also be seen as a set of closely related data that records everything we do online and our privacy.

• How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?

digital identities can reveal personal preferences to some extent. So depending on each person’s digital identity, the contents they received on social media will be different. This makes what we see on social media interesting to us.

For us personally, digital identities can also be accounts on different websites that allow us to conduct personal activities on social media sites.

• How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?

Our digital identities are most often used to create accounts across different social platforms. Digital identities are also becoming our online ID, helping us to work and do something else more easily. For example, paying tuition fees online uses our digital identities.

However, digital identity also brings risks, such as privacy leakage. The most common situation is the account stolen, and the credit card been stolen used. So what we need to deal with now is the problem of privacy leakage caused by digital identity.

Reference

Blog.avast.com. 2020. What is Digital Identity? Avast. Available at:<https://blog.avast.com/what-is-digital-identity-avast>.

Stoller, E., 2016. What is Digital Identity? Youtube. Available at: <https://youtu.be/u0RryRbJza0>.

Youtube.com. 2019. Davos 2019 – Press Conference The Value of Digital Identity for the Global Economy and Society. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-V7lyxrOmw>.

I am a senior majoring in economics. I come from China. My hometown names Yangzhou. I like reading books and playing video games. This course is very challenging for me and I hope to get a good grade.