Friday, February 20, 2015

What Happens in Vegas Online Stays Online: Examining your Digital Mark



What Happens in Vegas Online Stays Online: Examining your Digital Mark

“A digital footprint is a trail of date you create while using the internet. It include the websites you visit, emails you send and information you access.”

Every time you log on you leave a mark.

Two Types of Digital Footprints
Active: You are deliberately releasing information about yourself for the purposes of sharing.
Passive: Websites and/or platforms that collect information about you behind the scenes.

Scenarios:
If you are using a library computer and browsing the internet using a private browser session, are you leaving a digital footprint?
Emails that you send if your institution’s email is behind a firewall.

Teaching Students about Digital Footprints:



Digital Reputation: To some extent you can take control of your digital footprint by controlling the active part. You cannot control your digital reputation. Your reputation is long-term. You can have a good digital reputation.

How do you manage your digital reputation?

  • Set up a “google alert” that allows you to keep track of online posts that are about you. You can find google alert in your google account under services.
  • Clean up social media accounts. (About every six months.)
  • Privacy Settings. You can set up lists of people on Facebook that you wish to share some messages with but not all.
  • Facebook Legacy Contacts: If you die who has the ability to maintain your Facebook account? This is the person who has access to your Facebook account and can write a final message, send info about funeral etc., download shared photos, and close your account.


Digital Citizenship
Web 1.0 Top down; experts downloaded info
Web 2.0 More connected; get information and respond to it.
Web 3.0 Interactive web; we’re all putting information online; dynamic; everyone is an expert; Web 3.0 created “radical openness”

Information has been “democratized” due to the availability of multiple experts. Our expertise depends on our ability to analyze and evaluate expertise.

Netiquette is Citizenship

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