{"id":209,"date":"2023-04-24T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/?p=209"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T22:04:00","slug":"aspiring-to-be-a-digital-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/aspiring-to-be-a-digital-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspiring To Be a Digital Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Personally, I am a visitor on social media platforms.\u00a0 I use them primarily to see what everyone is up to, and provide short, supportive emojis or comments when appropriate.\u00a0 Very simple technologies, such as my iphone and use of Facetime or group texts keep me connected with my family and close friends.\u00a0 With parents, aunts and uncles now in their 80\u2019s and spread from coast to coast, group emails and phone calls are used to maintain those relationships. Professionally, I use social media platforms such as Kajabi and Instagram to create communities and reach a broader audience.\u00a0 \u00a0There is a purposeful disconnect between my personal and professional digital identities.\u00a0 I enjoyed using David White and Alison LeCornu\u2019s typology\u00a0(\u201cVisitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement<\/a>\u201d, 2011) to consider my use of digital spaces. \u00a0\u00a0It provides a good \u2018point in time\u2019 visual assessment of current digital practices.\u00a0 Now, just a few deeper thoughts around the definitions used for visitor and resident within the typology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the Just the Mapping<\/a> YouTube video (2013, 0:12), David White states that, \u201cthese are not types of people\u201d, when referring to the visitor\/resident axis. I\u2019m having trouble disconnecting my use of digital spaces from who I am.  I share the same values and beliefs about the Web and social media platforms as \u201cresidents\u201d but I behave more like a \u201cvisitor\u201d.  As a person, I \u2018feel\u2019 my way through life and work hard to manage social anxiety. Interacting in large social groups has always been a source of stress. Digital spaces trigger greater anxiety because I can\u2019t rely on any social cues or non-verbal communication to gauge how other community members are feeling, and also content or posts reach a larger audience.  Many other readings we\u2019ve done, including some of the blog posts in Kelly Schryver\u2019s Guest Post, Who Are You Online? Considering Issues of Web Identity <\/em>(2013)<\/a> address this constant negotiation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question<\/strong> \u2013 does your ideal digital map match the real-life map you constructed for this activity?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schryver, K. (2013, February 5). Who are you online? Considering issues of web identity<\/a>. The New York Times<\/em> blogs<\/em>. Alternate link to the The NYT blogs site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

White, D. S., & LeCornu, A. (2011). Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement<\/a>. First Monday<\/em>, 16(9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White, D. S., (2013, September 13). Just the Mapping  <\/em>[Video]. You Tube.<\/strong>   https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSK1Iw1XtwQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personally, I am a visitor on social media platforms.\u00a0 I use them primarily to see what everyone is up to, and provide short, supportive emojis or comments when appropriate.\u00a0 Very simple technologies, such as my iphone and use of Facetime or group texts keep me connected with my family and close friends.\u00a0 With parents, aunts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt521"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}