{"id":238,"date":"2019-05-26T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/?p=238"},"modified":"2019-05-26T17:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T23:34:22","slug":"weekly-casual-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/weekly-casual-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Casual Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of growing my digital presence (see post from April 30, 2019<\/a>), I will post a casual post like this every week.\u00a0 The plan behind these posts is to take what I am learning and apply it to my life as I experience events that relate to the MALAT program.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s post comes from a conversation I had at Heritage Park yesterday as I was working my volunteer shift.\u00a0 A co-worker and I were talking about how communications have changed between when newspapers were new to now when most of our communications are digital.\u00a0 My co-worker is young and easily fits into the digital native group, but he chooses to keep his digital presence very low.\u00a0 He has three social media accounts: a blog, an Instagram account, and Facebook Messenger).\u00a0 He uses Facebook Messenger without having a Facebook account, he keeps his blog so hidden that someone has yet to find it, and he has fewer than five followers on Instagram.\u00a0 He explained that he does this because he wants to choose how people see what he does.\u00a0 This got me thinking about the amount of information available online and who can see that information.\u00a0 Information\u2019s misuse can happen if it lands in the possession of the wrong person regardless of the medium used to distribute the information.\u00a0 Being careful online is common-knowledge now, and I suspect that is where his desire to choose who sees the content he posts.\u00a0 This conversation got me wondering if he was missing something by not interacting online.\u00a0 He has taken great effort to structure the tools to his needs, but I wonder if that restricts his learning in a way that he had not considered.<\/p>\n

The readings throughout this course have had one constant theme; online publics change and grow with each person and each posting.\u00a0 Online communities, groups, networks, etc., come from individuals\u2019 experiences both on- and off-line and the only way to encourage that is to dive in the open and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of growing my digital presence (see post from April 30, 2019), I will post a casual post like this every week.\u00a0 The plan behind these posts is to take what I am learning and apply it to my life as I experience events that relate to the MALAT program. This week\u2019s post comes … Continue reading Weekly Casual Post<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt521"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}