Month: September 2021

This is my V+R map, and obviously I use social media the most for personal reasons, because it is the fastest way for me to learn about the world and make friends. I also use Facebook to communicate with my classmates or colleagues in a timely manner. Brightspace and WordPress are currently the most used web pages when I am in school, so this is where I put them in institution. I think Chrome is not only for my personal search needs, but also for work.

What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network? 

With the rapid development of the Internet, students can have many digital platforms to show their profession, the most popular ones are Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, Linkedin and so on. These platforms are also a way for students, professors or employers to keep abreast of their basic information. But I found that Tiktok and Instagram have become a new trend that many young people are addicted to. Short video and photo collections can give the audience the most direct and quick understanding of what the publisher wants to express. Therefore, when students want to convey some of their professional content, they will choose to publish on these two platforms. This is a positive trend I see in the current Internet development platform, where people can easily build their own brands or social activities and make money from these activities. Save time and money, and bring more possibilities and surprises to many products.

What could the student consider in expanding their professional learning network?

The common feature of the large social software I have listed above is that people can find their industry or the content they are interested in from the tag. The advantage of this way is to keep abreast of the latest industry information and improve my professional ability from the experience of others. In addition to picking up information on other people’s social media platforms, we also give others the opportunity to learn about us when we speak on those platforms. What we should do to expand our PLN is to update our relevant posts in time, so that not only professors or employers can see our abilities, but also classmates and friends can find similar attitudes and expand our social space.

In your network how can you create a digital identity/reputation?

The upside of the big data era is that it is broad and fast, but the downside is that there is nowhere for many people to hide their information. We create digital identities from our posts, comments, likes and views. The rapid change of the Internet can cause many of us to lose ourselves temporarily, but the traces left by our digital identities are not so easily erased. So the best way to preserve our digital reputation is to be careful with what you say and what you do, taking a moment to reflect on every post and comment.

Find out what a local employer would do if you applied for a job with them?

As an employer, they certainly would not be completely blinded by a resume. Background check is the most basic way for a company to investigate the employees, not only to know the potential of the employees, but also to look at the past life and work experience of the employees. For example, if you had an unhappy relationship with your former company, or if the life behind them was positive. Our social media activities are a direct reflection of our attitude towards life, so the content we post on the platform needs to be careful.

With the rise of social media, people love to show their lives on social media. The most direct way of social media on the network is to share one’s thoughts and attitudes at any time and anywhere, and at the same time learn about the dynamics of people around us. Such sharing and communication is global, not only for people around us, but also a medium for us to communicate with different people in the world. Most of the time, our dynamic on the Internet can be easily discovered by many people, and even in the process of sharing, we can gain many people’s appreciation and recognition. This kind of encouragement is positive energy and gives people confidence from praise, which may be a positive development for the developed web. At the same time, social media also has negative effects. The most direct one is that it is easy to expose privacy. The content we post on social media will leave traces. Intentional people can even fabricate facts through some cruel means, bringing a lot of unnecessary trouble. Secondly, many people disguise themselves excessively in order to attract the audience’s attention on social media, which takes up a lot of time and makes people addicted to it. However, I always believe that proper use of social media can bring convenience to our life, and even learn and feel many new things from it.

Digital identity refers to the mapping of human identity in physical society in digital space. To summarize in a popular way is to condense our real identity information into digital codes that can be queried and identified by the network and related devices. In the announcement of consumption or employment and other fields have been widely used. Digital identity in today’s society has reflected a positive trend for future development, and many countries have gained the development potential of the market.

The development of digital identity can be roughly divided into centralized identity and alliance identity. Using the social software analogy around you, the identifiers of the era of centralized identity are the mailbox, and you are represented behind the email address of your hand. Affiliate identity can be our Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, and can be accessed and used across platforms. The most prominent feature of digital identity built on blockchain is autonomy, security and control. Digital identity is not just about online identity. Technically, a digital identity is one that uniquely identifies a person, company, and device as legitimate under certain circumstances. As for how our digital identity on social media use correctly, for example, as a designer, when you go to apply for a designer position, the employer can not  get to know you from the work that you provider, they can view you by your name information posted on social media dynamic to evaluate whether you meet their standards, not only is the business ability, Social media can also tell people your personal code of conduct.

Digital identity brings us a lot of convenience on the Internet, starting with online transactions. The authentication technology of digital security certificate is used to verify the identity and qualification of both parties to ensure the uniqueness and non-repudiation of traders’ information, protect the interests of all parties and achieve secure transactions. There is also the most commonly used E-mail. The sender of the E-mail encrypts the E-mail with the public key of the receiver, and the receiver decrypts the E-mail with its private key, ensuring the security, integrity and uniqueness of the information during the transmission of the E-mail.

With the improvement of data privacy security laws around the world, the importance of personal privacy security has reached an unprecedented level, and the risks and responsibilities of digital custodians are becoming serious. Centralized electronic credentials are faced with problems such as easy data loss, tampering and abuse of user data.

Extending full digital ID coverage could unlock economic value equivalent to 3 to 13 percent of GDP in 2030, with just over half of the potential economic value potentially accruing to individuals. Realizing this value is by no means certain or automatic (White et al., 2019). In the future, digital identity will standardize the identity of all people, in this development environment, people can create more value, from the current market can see significant economic growth. In the process of data processing and collection, people can overcome more difficulties and bring powerful motivation to human beings.

Reference

White, O., Madgavkar, A., Manyika, J., Mahajan, D., Bughin, J., McCarthy, M., & Sperling O. (2019). Digital identification: A key to inclusive growth. McKinsey Global Institute. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/digital-identification-a-key-to-inclusive-growth

Hi everyone, my name is Joerica. I am a senior economics student, so this is my last year at UVIC.

I have had several other EDCI  courses before this one. I think EDCI is a  quite interesting major. I learned a lot about multimedia teaching in other classes, such as animation or video production. These things are not very relevant to my major, but I think learning more about other things can also enrich my experience.

Because of the COVID-19, I did not go back to Canada, so I am still looking forward to the offline courses. I am in China right now, in addition to continuing online classes, I also have sports and reading, to keep my own good attitude and habits.

In this class, I hope I can communicate with my classmates as soon as possible, and I also look forward to sharing my opinions with all of you.

Thank you.