Month: September 2023

What is a digital identity?

A digital identity is how people play roles when they are online. Internet has become a virtual world and everyone is playing his roles. There is little relationship between digital identity and real-world identity. People can create a digital identity which is similar to who they are in the real world. They can also create a digital identity which is totally different from the ones they are playing in the real world.

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

Personal approaches have limited affect because personal digital identity do not have too many followers and influence. They can become famous and siginificant digitial identity but it needs plenty of time and money. Compared to professional approaches, they have adequate funds and influence and they have a follower base in the real-world. It is quiet simple and easy for professional digital identity to develop online. What’s more is they can easily create waves and blizzard on the Internet using their influence and fame.

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

Openess is the key point for digital identities to converge in networked publics. Although there are rules and social scripts in the real world, people can behave open-minded and tolerant when they are playing roles online because information is passing fast and broadly on the Internet. There will be more cultural conflict and disagreement, which are obstacles for digital indentity to converge in networked publics. Being open-minded can make people understand and learn different cultures and habbits in different regions where they have never been and seen.

What does it mean to network using social media?

People could think of themselves as networked individuals. People can live and learn in the network society. This intimate connection between people and technology has had a profound effect. It has changed how we seek out, access, use and store information, how we communicate, study and work together and how we create and share ideas. The way we learn has changed. Learning is not just something we do in a lecture theatre or a classroom with a tutor. It’s something we do together through our social networks, through video sharing sites, gaming networks, forums, communities and other online spaces and, of course, in person. We are at the centre of an empowering online and face-to-face network. This network is made of people, devices, information and services, which we can shape and use in order to learn at times, in places and in ways we choose and control.

How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?

This three–layered model relates the attitude of a professional learner towards networking to the actual networking skills she displays in day–to–day practice. Attitudes and skills are different types of qualities: an attitude is something of the mind, a perspective with which a person views the world; a skill is a practical, developable ability to do something. Because of this difference, it is not possible to directly link the two layers. To do so, requires two important intermediary steps in our view. The first one is the translation of this attitude in the mind to a deliberate intention. When professionals have developed an attitude of approaching their professional life and learning in a networked way, they build, maintain and activate their contacts intentionally.

The second step is to translate that intention into actions. The professional’s intention manifests itself through the activity of networking, where the professional engages in practices enabling and supporting networking. These include activating strong ties , activating weak ties , building or maintaining weak and very weak ties . The activity of networking depends on the complex skill of being able to make associations between the contact’s qualities and one’s own . This complex skill is in turn influenced by the different factors identified earlier in this article at the different phases of networking. As such, the attitude trickles down as it were to affect the professional’s actions and the required skills.

What are the risks & rewards of public communications?

In a networked age, a reasonable amount of control is not enough; control has to be absolute control. One slip-up or data leakage and whatever was once protected can easily enter into a networked public where it may enter broader databases, be aggregated with other data, and circulate. In a networked world, data is more persistent, replicable, searchable, and scalable than ever before. Trying to achieve perfect control will only lead to frustration.

If teenagers’ efforts to achieve social privacy keep their parents in the dark, they don’t stop algorithmic interpretation—and misinterpretation—of their interactions. They are still subject to advertising and personalization based on what they post and they may be rejected by colleges and have limited job opportunities based on the interpretations of machines or people. But their efforts to achieve privacy without relying on the control of information are still an important signal. Not only have the next generation not given up on privacy, but they’re actually trying to find ways to achieve privacy in networked publics.