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Access & Usage Digital Participation Identity Management

Is Facebook a Hacker?

December 29, 2011 – 11:24 pm

This post is inspired by a dear friend on my Facebook profile who commented when I posted this status update:

“With the new ‘FB timeline’ on its way this week for EVERYONE…please do both of us a favour. Hover over my name above. In a few seconds you’ll see a box that says “Subscribed”. Hover over that, go to “Comments and Likes” and unclick it. That will stop my posts and yours to me from showing up on the side bar for everyone to see, but MOST IMPORTANTLY IT LIMITS HACKERS from invading our profiles. If you repost this I will do the same for you. You’ll know I’ve acknowledged you because if you tell me that you’ve done it I”ll ‘like’ it. Thanks”

My friend commented that her friends have shared an article about how the above status update that is circulating is a hoax. She gave me this link to the article on a website called thatsnonsense.com reporting it is a unfounded rumour. Upon read this article, I became aware how myself and the author differ in our understanding of the term hacker. To clarify for my friend I started to write this response in a comment on my status update. Given the length of my response, I’m sharing it here. I responded with the following. read more »

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The Complexities of Digital Participation

December 7, 2011 – 9:09 pm

Do you remember the days when profiling usage of media technologies was about viewing or readership behaviour – who watched or read what? How long they spent doing this and the differential between media types (broadcast, print), channels, and vehicles. Media viewing behaviour was somewhat complicated, but it was far from the complexity we see today when trying to navigate the ubiquitous and complex world of digital and social media.Considering this change, I’ve often wondered what are the elements managers of digital media channels – be it marketers, communicators, digital media designers or even the owner of a small business or not for profit – consider when evaluating digital media participation for their brand or media channels and social communities. read more »

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Talk: ME+WE=Digital Identity Management

September 19, 2011 – 11:29 pm

Last week I gave a talk to a group of 50 members of the Women in Management (WiM) Network. A group organised and sponsored by the Chartered Management Institute. The theme of the evening event was ‘Business in a Digital Age’. Usually at events I am asked to discuss the use of digital media in marketing and/or organizational communications. However I was fortunate to be sharing the evening with Liam Giles from SpinDogs, who gave a very detailed account of what emerging digital media we are seeing in the world of marketing. We also heard from Peter Gwyn Williams from e-Crime Wales, who shared his in depth and technical knowledge about how, where and to what extent we are open to e-Crime.

I however was more drawn to another topic, Digital Identity Management. read more »

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A Wiki Way of Learning

February 15, 2011 – 1:23 am

A Wiki Way of Learning is the title of a study I’ve been working on over the past two years in collaboration with Professor Martin Weller (Open University). The study explores the design, use and effect of Wiki technology for collaborative learning in postgraduate management education.

Collaborative learning has a diverse meaning, from group or team-based working, to peer-to-peer interaction on shared tasks. With the rise in dynamic ubiquitous digital technologies has provided another rich layer to collaborative learning as the need to learn how to collaborate now coexists with the need to learn how to use digital technologies. read more »

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DML 2010: S. Craig Watkins on Black and Latino youth remaking the participation gap!

February 21, 2010 – 12:31 am

S.Craig_WatkinsFollowing the chair’s introduction by Dr. Henry Jenkins, the opening keynote talk was delivered by S. Craig Watkins. Highly regarded for his research about race, youth and digital media usage and his books, The Young and the Digital and Hip Hop Matters. He was invited to join the MacArthur Foundation Series on Youth, Digital Media and Learning.

With this in mind and with no experience in this area I was looking forward to hearing the perspective from which he considers this space. Below is provided a few key insights I took out of his keynote talk: read more »

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