Picture source: http://dial.myblog.arts.ac.uk2011/12/13/210
So, we have come to the end of the first topic in the module
Living and Working on the Web (#UOSM2008). We were given a task to explain the concept
of Digital “Visitor” and “Resident” based on our readings and personal online
experience. Having read others blogs and comments for my own one there are few
things that I need to clarify in order to summarize the topic:
- First and the most significant one is
that I should not mix up definitions as I did in my first paragraph with
Prensky (2011) and White (2011), because I just thought that they can be
used interchangeably. Apparently it isn't.
- Secondly, as I have mentioned in my
blog, the division of people into 'Residents' and 'Visitors' is not
precise and there is a huge gap in the middle. And as one of my classmates (Kimberly) have mentioned in my comments: "this concept forms a continuum to which people can find themselves in
between the two, and showing some attributes from each entity". To
support this, I can give an example from an article I had pleasure to
read and which was sent to me by one of my classmates (Jazmin). This was Horrigans
(2007), which had this idea that people are divided into 10 groups
according their level of activity online:
Picture Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2007/PIP_ICT_Typology.pdf.pdf
In conclusion, I'm still of the opinion that this concept is
far too narrow and needs more groups, or even sub-groups to describe the
variety of users online. Idea of Horrigans (2007) replicates much deeper insight
of this concept (See the picture above).
Overall, this was my first blog, and I hope that people have
enjoyed reading it, because I actually, enjoyed writing it :). Looking forward
to see the next task.
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