How we interact and communicate can affect and mold our future. In today’s world, a man regularly makes interactions with people, devices, and technology. This networking skill supports how an individual learns and grows.
What is a Personal Learning Network?
A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is a global, online world that enables users to create a vast pool of information while focusing on learning essential to an individual. Because new data and information are altering the globe at a much faster rate than it has ever been, PLNs are immensely beneficial. Collaboration is completely unrestricted here, allowing one to stand up and share expertise with educators, mentors, and the global community. Perspective is obtained by networking to enhance one’s field of expertise better.
How are we motivated to engage in networking?
Affected by the global pandemic, networking is now predominantly done online. Due to the underlying risks of going outside, there is enough motivation to interact with others on the internet, whether casual or professional networking. This idea of how the current networking technologies can create visual spaces similar to physical ones is called networked public.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Public Communication
Along with the current surge of COVID-19 cases, people’s motivation arises to engage in public communication. While it may benefit the general public with persuasion and additional entertainment and information, there are also risks attached to these advantages. One may get negative comments directly after trying to speak up, or worse, threats. Therefore, responsibility and knowledge should be significantly considered upon attempting to communicate and speak up to the world, which brings us to the next subject: digital identity.
What exactly is Digital Identity?
Whenever you like, react, comment, share, tweet, or post on social media, for example, it reflects who you are as an individual. A digital identity is the online collection of information about a person, organization, or technological gadget. A digital identity develops naturally due to the usage of personal data on the internet and the shadow information recorded by a person’s online activity.
How can it affect someone personally and professionally?
Social media has made lives open and transparent to the global network. Many of the things an individual does on social media are now considered by many employers nowadays as one of the benchmarks of being a potential employee of theirs. Some individuals had lowered their chances of gaining a job due to their content finding inappropriate or offensive.
Digital Identities in Networked Publics
Many of the same roles as other forms of publics are served by networked publics: they allow individuals to meet for social, cultural, and civic purposes, and they help them interact with a world beyond their immediate friends and family. Individuals, governments, and companies all across the globe can benefit from digital identity by driving inclusive economic growth and creating significant value. This technology can help broaden networking overall and potentially improve not just the businesses all over the world but as well as addressing global issues.
Final Words
Networking is attached to every living individual around the world. With formed relationships and interactions from one’s Personal Learning Networks, changes may develop that improve life overall. However, just because it is known to help, it is also essential to note how it is also destructive, both for the individual and others. This brings us to a conclusion how security and safety in the digital identities of people and organizations are crucial. It may be the only way to prepare ourselves to face the future with bravery.
References
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“Davos 2019 – Press Conference The Value of Digital Identity for the Global Economy and Society.” YouTube, uploaded by World Economic Forum, 6 Feb. 2019, https://youtu.be/1-V7lyxrOmw
“Eric Stoller – What Is Digital Identity?” YouTube, uploaded by University of Derby, 25 Nov. 2016, https://youtu.be/u0RryRbJza0
FutureLearn. “What Is a Personal Learning Network (PLN)?” FutureLearn, 4 Feb. 2021, https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learning-network-age/0/steps/24644
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