As I reach the end of this course, I find myself looking back at my initial perceptions of social media and realize how much they have shifted. My initial perception of what social media was a tool for simple entertainment or peer to peer communications. Now has transformed into a more sophisticated personal learning network….
A concerning trend on Canadian social media is the rise of “AI slop”. Specifically, AI news slop, low quality content designed to mimic official news sources with made up stories designed to fuel engagement. Most instances involve, AI generated fake personas or articles that appear credible to the average scroller. A recent example can be…
How do educators create discourse? Today, educators create and write discourse by moving beyond traditional boundaries to engage in open teaching methods that are transparent, collaborative, and social. Such discourse is facilitated through the development of personals learning networks (PLNs), where knowledge is collaboratively developed and then shared. There are many forms of media where…
How does social media engage communications? Social media acts as a many to many networked environment that allows people to move away from traditional one to many/top down structures for mass communication, like public broadcasting, newspapers, and magazines (Clark et al., 2011). Social media engages communications by allowing the everyone to form around shared issues,…
Overall, my map shows stronger Resident engagement in personal spaces and growing resident engagement in professional spaces. I think its only natural since I am definitely becoming more intentional about building a visible professional digital identity as I approach graduation. In the Personal-Visitor quadrant, Youtube, Reddit, and Spotify are similarly grouped because I only use…
We live in an age where participating online is almost unavoidable. Whether it is through social media, academic platforms, or professional tools, much of how we learn, communicate, and present ourselves now happens in networked digital spaces. To me, networking through social media means building and and maintaining connections through shared platforms rather than in…