Your digital footprint
Mapping your online engagement is a useful way of helping you to understand the extent of your digital footprint. White and Cornu (2011) identified two types of online participation: visitor and resident.
Visitor
Only use online tools for an end goal
- booking a cinema or train ticket,
- ordering a new hoodie
- applying for university.
Resident
- Comfortable sharing online via social media platform
- Having their own vlog
- Share photos on pixabay
Watch this video and decide whether you are a visitor or a resident and then plot your engagement by dividing a piece of paper into the four quadrants illustrated below.
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