This Is Me: This Is Me Introduction. A Collection of Digital Citizenship Resources. The Dark Sides of Our Digital Self. I recently picked up a copy of Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality at my local library. The author is a psychiatrist by the name of Elias Aboujaoude who is currently serving as the director at the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The thesis of Aboujaoude’s book is that the world wide web can have a very profound affect on our sense of self. In fact, it can cause a kind of “digital divide” between our digital self, how we often think and behave online, and our offline self, how we often think and behave in face-to-face, “real world” interactions. Some of the case studies and examples in Virtually You are clearly reflective of individuals who already have a propensity for certain mental problems. The internet just provided an outlet that exacerbated the problem, and clearly not everyone who engages in online behavior is going to develop these mental problems.
Delusions of Grandeur Narcissism Aggression Impulsivity. Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You. If you think you’re different on Facebook than you are in real life, you’ve got some explaining to do. A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Psychology called “Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information” published in the academic journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking found that Facebook users are no different online than they are offline. The study also revealed strong connections between real personality and Facebook-related behavior. Social and personality processes, the study says, accurately mirror non-virtual environments.
Looking at the big five personality traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism – Professor Samuel D. In Study 1 (of the two studies covered in this paper), researchers examined personality and self-reported Facebook-related behaviors. Is your digital footprint ready for teaching. Am in the process of creating a new blog to be called “Is my digital footprint ready for teaching?”. The following describes the why and what and records some initial planning/design. Keen to hear any suggestions folk have. Why? This idea is killing two birds with one stone. First, is the need to demonstrate some sort of online learning event so the students have some ideas for their first assignment.
The current intention is for the blog to act as a stand-alone learning event. The inspiration for this idea is, in part, the “pink bits” talk given at the CQUniversity GDLT induction. What? The aims of the site are to allow visitors to Discover what their public digital footprint is. In general, I shouldn’t be creating lots of content on this site. Looking for resources/activities George Couros’ page on digital footprint. Via Doug Pete’s about page is Visual.ly infographic generated based on my Twitter activity. Nice video from one of Michael Wesch’s students And the obligatory US news story Sites. Digitalcitizenship. Digitalcitizenship. Digitalcitizenship. Digital Tattoo.