Social Networking
How Can we fit popular sites like Myspace and Facebook into the teaching curricula, and culture of school? I think the idea here is of a digital self. Online there are many aspects that define who your are perceived. On myspace you are the drunk college kid, flicker you are the artistic photographer, and Monster.com you are the perfect employee who lives to work. There is a kind of balance in "real life" how much information you give people access to, and how much you tell someone at one time. I think this same concept applies to a persons online digital self.
In business, a common form of communication is the business card. It has some information, but not everything. You could research more with that info, but it would take time. The same can be applied to the digital identity of a person or business. A business can have a my space page, and use that as a medium to communicate about their goals, vision, and the such. Or it could be brief with lots of flash but little content, begging the viewer to find another aspect of that businesses digital existence. Just like in real life, these are decisions students and teachers should be aware of, but will have to apply differently to each circumstance.
As these new technologies and means of communication, there will come a standard of what information is commonly provided, and in what way, just like the company, title, cell and email address, printed on that specific sized business card (who in the world thought of that size business card anyway?)
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Chris interesting observations, like the idea you had with teh starbucks and its employees, could definately see that sort of online venue take off in the near future. What if there were blog like communities that existed at starbucks, and connected to other starbucks almost liek a message board for the community but at the starbucks and online so nearby peoples could access it.It also would serve to enhance the experience. Recently over spring break I had an experience with online tools such as these where my friend who goes to Mizzou created a facebook group in which he utilized ot organize roller hockey pick up games. He used it to communicate online through posts and facebook mass messagign and to access all the peoples info associated with the group. The idea of having groups like this and the communication touchpoints to be accessed for select groups and to find info specific to them would leverage your ability to communicate 10 fold. Brilliant! (Guinness old guys). See you tommorrow
Hey, I really liked this idea about a digital self (or probably "multiple digital selves"). It's kind of similar to what we were discussing today. It's also related to what E. T. Higgins proposed about people having two "actual" selves: (i) the kind of person an individual believes she or he actually is and (ii) the kind of person an individual believes that others think he or she is... which -as you propose- would probably vary depending on the website you're visiting.
Anyway, good conceptual idea, good post!
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