Month: January 2021

– What is a digital identity?

Digital identity is a form of information which will upload and saved online for many types of use like Facebook, and eBay. It includes your birthday and address sexual, and other personal information. There are mainly two types of digital identity: digital attributes and digital activates. Digital attributes are about fixed personal information like date of birth and ID number, Digital activates are about history of online activates like purchase history, and Downloading app.

– How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity

In my opinion, digital identity developed social media in a good way. Nowadays everyone can use express their ideas and thoughts by using many social media app like tiktok because of the digital identity. It helped us to broaden our way of absorb information, and it pushed social media forward into other level.

– How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits? – Can a digital wallet provide trust in networked publics?

With the development of technology and intensification of market competition, personal digital identities and wallet is very secure way to interact each other, and for sure that digital wallet can provide trust in networked publics. Digital identities can be use as big data analysis as well. Therefore the public can get a roughly picture of taste of what’s to come.

What does it mean to network using social media?

Network has huge impact on people’s daily life, and we received a lot of information form internet. In my opinion, network makes everything become closer, and it seems like become major connection between our families, friends, classmates. Social media provide a platform which makes everyone can receive all kind of information from different area even from other people’s hand. The combination of social media and network becomes the major platform of information exchange.

How are we motivated to participate in networked publics?  

Network publics is a double edge sword. The key of keeping network environment clean is to avoid fake news and posts. Those fake news can lead people’s mind into a wrong position which can encourage people to make mistakes in the real life. We should use networked as platform to pass positive energy.

What are the risks & rewards of public communications?

Again, public communications can be use as platform of fake news to spread. It will mislead people’s mind, and it can create troublous activities in our real life. For example, many news was reported that coronavirus is kind of flu and it will disappear anytime soon. Those kind of new made a huge health crisis around world. However, there are many rewards as well if we use network in a right way.

Hi everyone, my name is Xin Ding, and this is my second year at Uvic. It is my pleasure to work with you guys!  I was born in Jiangsu which located at southeast of China. I’ve been in Victoria for 8 years, and I went to Camosun college for university transfer program after I graduated from PCS (Pacific Christian school, Victoria). I also spent a year in Denver, Colorado for Highschool before I came to Canada. I have returned to China already because of the COVID-19, and I hope everyone stay safe.