The creation of a digital presence is important in establishing a base in an online participatory culture. \u00a0In their work \u201cTHE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age,\u00a0Information, Communication & Society\u201d Eszter Hargittai & Gina Walejko\u00a0examine the increase of sharing due to the ease of these activities online. This digital culture has helped to remove some inequalities and from the changes the results are that people of every age are better connected despite potential socioeconomic challenges. From that, I feel as an educator there is a need to participate in digital culture and to understand the benefits and challenges ourselves.<\/p>\n
My digital footprint was built organically over time. I chose Twitter as the main tool for my information dissemination. While working on digital marketing, I had an opportunity to investigate creating a separate social media account based on my professional use. When I had the opportunity to split my online presence, I decided to use one account for both personal and professional. My reason for my choice was simply based on the platform itself. Of all social media platforms, Twitter is one of the most accessible to conversation and discussion but to encourage discussion there is a need to be more human and less robotic which means that posts on opinion fit well among more professional posts. That is how I have built my @jclemy Twitter account to nearly 1,300 followers.<\/p>\n
Looking at other sources and how other educators use their social media, I realized that without looking or planning that I had created and worked on a plan without setting anything in motion or putting it in writing.<\/p>\n
My Facebook presence is primarily private. While I post responses to other stories, I have my own personal page kept relatively private and I\u2019m careful about who I share or connect with. My approach is comparable to the approach used by other educators and a similar description to A. L. Flamme in his article \u201cDeveloping Your Personal Social Media Strategy\u201d.<\/p>\n
I plan on further expanding my blog presence throughout my courses in the MALAT program. By posting all my writing, it will give me a place to go back to my research and where I worked. This will also give me a place to write more regularly on education and the topics I have an interest in. My current plan is to write primarily as I go through the program with an increase in content as time allows. Knowing that to get an audience on the blog I will need to have regular and enticing content, I will endeavor to try to post at least once a week.<\/p>\n
I will also likely share my articles through LinkedIn but that is a platform that I am weakest in simply due to a lack of interest. While I understand LinkedIn and it\u2019s a great platform to connect with other professionals, the lack of interaction on the platform is what I find relatively unappealing about it.<\/p>\n
An element that is important to my presence is the inclusion of imagery on all the posts written and published on the blog. High quality imagery will is important, so I will use Creative Commons 0 images or my own to ensure that I have the rights to use them.<\/p>\n
I will also set up automated sharing through the service IFTTT to ensure that all posts are shared on my social networks.<\/p>\n
For me success on these platforms is measured by engagement and commenting on my posts. Regular discussion will add value to my posts and will allow me and others on my page to gain perspectives from others.<\/p>\n
Eszter Hargittai & Gina Walejko\u00a0(2008)\u00a0THE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age,\u00a0Information, Communication & Society,11:2,\u00a0239-256,\u00a0DOI:\u00a010.1080\/13691180801946150<\/a><\/p>\n Flamme, A. L. (2015, February 12). Developing Your Personal Social Media Strategy \u2013 The Synapse \u2013 Medium. Retrieved from https:\/\/medium.com\/synapse\/developing-your-personal-social-media-strategy-dfb8da0777d<\/a><\/p>\n The Role of Social Media in Education. (2018, January 02). Retrieved from https:\/\/lcibs.co.uk\/the-role-of-social-media-in-education\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The creation of a digital presence is important in establishing a base in an online participatory culture. \u00a0In their work \u201cTHE PARTICIPATION DIVIDE: Content creation and sharing in the digital age,\u00a0Information, Communication & Society\u201d Eszter Hargittai & Gina Walejko\u00a0examine the… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,18,20,26,29,22,27],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt521","tag-digital","tag-education","tag-instructional-design","tag-online-learning","tag-personal-reflection","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}