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Mapping my use of technology as it pertains to the resident-visitor typology brought to light a harsh reality. Although, in my very small corner of the world, amongst my peers, I am considered to be the most technologically savvy and adventurous, through this exercise, visualizing my use of technology I was able to gain insights as it pertains to my place in the digital works and the challenges that hinder my efforts in creating a digital presence. I was also able to see, through my areas of use, changes that will benefit efforts to increase digital presence and allow for the development of a digital identity.<\/p>\n
Danah Boyd\u2019s article \u201cSocial Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics and Implications\u201d gave me a clearer understanding of the landscape that I am headed into and gave me language to articulate why I have been as conservative as I have been to date.\u00a0\u00a0 As technology adds to the persistent nature of \u201cbits\u201d, we are more accountable for the information we give now that technology has afforded the capability to capture information sharing in a way that makes it permanent where it was once fleeting and short-lived (Boyd, D., 2010, p. 7). Not only does technology make information sharing permanent, taken out of the context in which it was developed, interpretations can vary wildly away from the intended message, leading to unintended consequences. (Boyd, D., 2010, p. 8) As a mother of three, internet safety and protection has always taken a prominent role in the internet etiquette rules I have taught. I am most grateful that I was able to live out my teen and young adult years before the internet was recording and archiving my life and this is a routine topic with my children to be carefully decisive about what they post. Danah\u2019s exploration the structured affordances of networked publics put much of my usage into perspective, in particular the concept of permanence.<\/p>\n
As I dove into other readings, I was particularly intrigued by the concepts of visitors and residents as they pertain to digital life.\u00a0\u00a0 D\u2019Educacio offers an alternative to the standard view of digital inhabitants being either immigrants or natives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I myself have always identified as an immigrant, on and offline, originally being from another country and another generation. It was easy to view older generations as perpetual immigrants in the digital world and younger generations as innate natives by virtue of being born into the digital age. Reading D\u2019Educacio\u2019s \u201cVisitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement\u201d helped me to recognize my bias that only younger generations can become fully digitally literate. \u00a0D\u2019Educacio explains that a visitor\u2019s use of technology is almost exclusively geared toward goal accomplishment and\/or task completion with not much thought into environment or connection (D’Educacio, D., 2009, p. 5) and a resident\u2019s use of technology is intentionally geared toward creating a space for interaction, connection and knowledge mobilization (D’Educacio, D., 2009, p. 5). D\u2019Educacio further explains that the visitor\/resident typology is best understood as a continuum as opposed to two distinct categories that one either fits into or doesn’t depending on their usage and behavior (D’Educacio, D., 2009, p. 5) and that to best understand the visitor\/resident typology, it is advised to resist the urge to pin point ones identity on the continuum with the intension of understanding which way one is progressing or to assume that the natural progression is ultimately toward from visitor to resident (D’Educacio, D., 2009, p. 6). Furnished with this new information, it is now time to decide where I am and where I want to be.<\/p>\n
It is clear to me that my use up to this point has been quite limited to the role of Visitor in the realm of the Professional. It is also clear to me that this identity is one with which I can make to conscious choice to stay as to I can choose to move into a different direction. Being of an older generation no longer has to come with the bias that one can never really become digitally literate. It is a conscious choice and one that I find myself ready to make. Suffice it to say, in the world of bits, I am. In retrospect I can honestly say that I am grateful to be here and am now quite aware of the opportunities that lay before me in this journey through technology.<\/p>\n
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References<\/p>\n
Danah Boyd. (2010). “Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and implications.” In Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites (ed. Zizi Papacharissi), pp. 39-58.<\/p>\n
White, D. S., & Cornu, A. L. (2011). Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement. First Monday, 16(9). doi:10.5210\/fm.v16i9.3171<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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