This week was a deep dive into understanding my own digital presence as outlined by Dave White in his video (White, 2013) to shed some light on how much of my digital persona is ‘visitor’ (lurking, not effecting public space), and how much is ‘resident’ (deliberate content creation, contribution to the internet as a whole, leaving a trace). Beyond that, the second axis of ‘personal’ and ‘institutional’ helped to articulate the reasons for choosing the digital space in which I participate.
I elected to break down that digital presence into categories based on digital publics (boyd, 2011): personal, my business, volunteer work, other projects, and my current work as an instructor. I used Leonardo (version 0.15.21) to create layers and to draw the areas of use. In retrospect, there are pieces missing (Skype, Google Hangouts, and others), but my main usages are mapped.
I was surprised to the extent that I’m performing digitally in the resident/institutional realm – this was a much deeper set of layers than anticipated. The big ‘aha’ was around my servitude to email.
I may yet make this into a gif, but the images are as follows:
References
boyd, D. (2011). Social network sites as networked publics: Affordances, dynamics, and implications. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), A Networked Self (pp. 39–58). New York, NY: Rutledge.
Henning, Tegan. (2019). Leonardo [Computer Software]. Retrieved from https://www.getleonardo.com/
White, Dave (2013). Just the Mapping. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSK1Iw1XtwQ April 24, 2019.
Hi Lisa,
I love the layered approach. I’m curious, did you find the continuum too constraining ‘as is’? Is that why you chose to include several layers?
I would have included layers myself, if I would have though of it. I felt myself wishing for a third axis that dealt with aptitude when completing this activity. For instance, when I went to plot my use of Google-docs, a tool I decidedly use exclusively for it’s function; I wondered exactly where on the left side it was appropriate to plot. The you-tube video you referenced utteres a pretty simplified version of the typology, however in White and Le Cornu’s article, referenced below, they include a more complete depiction of the visitor-resident continuum. I wondered if by including google docs on the far left, did this imply that I was also apt with this particular tool? Or should it be moved inward on the spectrum, to indicate where my aptitude with this tool may be lacking, and therefor deserving of a smaller sliver of the visitor axis.
Thanks for sharing your map!
Reference
White, D. S., & Le Cornu, A. (2011). Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement. First Monday, 16(9).