Month: November 2022

• Can your PLN be used to help professional development post-course?

yes, absolutely, PLN is something you can continuesly build up thruought the year, and therefore, it is definitely something you can keep utilize after the post course period. You can always build up small in some area amd gradually emerge into that area to have influence, for exmaple while you are in course you can reach to the professional associated pages or people in your interest or join a community of that kinda a interest to build the base for that type of professional development in the future.

• Can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?

Yes, joining into communities will help you emerge into the social space and as you are you gain professionality step by step of your own knolwege you will be able to further emerge into the community by giving back to these people in the community and thus slowly build connections in the professional cirlcle and thus earn more insight and professional opporutnities.

• You do not have to review the complete video – select sections you think are important to reflect on, and please reference the time index in your references.

The sections that is important are how to start, most of us here are really Blank piece of paper when it comes to starting up PLN, and we have never done it before, in the video I could not recall for when but there were a clear distinctive messege in reaching out, if you don’t have the direct professionalism or what it takes to connect to reach out, merge yourself into a community and once you have had a little bit of knowlege of yourself after learning from the group and doing your own reasearch, merge more into the group by slowly sharing stuff back and fourth with them to build interaction with one another. This is very important because this can help the newbies which have no personal connection or no influence in thier own blog to build their connections, they can join a group and learn bit by bit and eventually go on to build connections with the group.

·       Open dialogues about media literacy and factual information can create conflict; why does this happen?

media literacy is an art how how to present information to the audience thru media, this does not mean that the information should be factual or prioritied in truth seeking since its priorities are in how to present them for you to get the desired effect on the audience.

Since the goal of media literacy is to best express the information you want the audience to hear to gain the desired influence toward them, it all depends on what you want your channell to be like, for exmaple, if it is a business oriented channel rather than an educational one, you want to give the critical public audience what they want to see rather than what they need to see. Just like how in the video, Julie Smith has mentioned that if you want to gain support and popularity, you would post cat hating post if 90 percent of all of your followers are pro dog. This is to gain thier support and to think that you are in stance with them. However, If it is an educational based channel you do want to give your followers what they need, you want to be objective in terms of finding facts and what you present, since you do not want to mislead people in terms of what information they approach. Therefore, different channels have different ways to opt for fully media literacy potential, some include manipulating the content for their audience, and this will mean that the content doesn’t have to be factual, therefore sometimes factual information and media literacy can create conflict.

·       What is the benefit of having a PLN that values media literacy?

You would know how to best present yourself to the broad audience to best gain things out of the media (PLN) you create, Audiences are able to follow what they were presented with a clear idea without getting lost or have to pay extra attention to figure out informations that were presented to them in a confusing way.

Explore the video provided and reflect on the themes and questions above, reflecting on how you would curate your social media with a critical public audience.

·       What are the benefits of being in the public eye and having a PLN?

being in the public eye while having PLN will obviously grant you more attention than before because you are a public figure, your PLN will also be more recognized with a perspective of social infuence and a leading trend of opinion, however, whatever you do will also be monitored and if there is something people don’t like it will come back to you and hurt you.

·       Building a community with online tools provided by the employer can be limiting; what are the perceived restrictions and benefits?

The restriction could be limiting the community expansion, if you want to make your community inclusive you need to be ready to expand yourself to accept all the possible types of people and interact with them, having restrictions in mind could potentially put a stop to the expanding power on the community you have built. However the benefit would be that you are more concise into what you want to build you community around and thus it would have fastened the process. Another benefit is that there would not be much confusion and you would not run out of ideas since you are given a guide by the employer.

If I were to curate social media with critical public audience, I would try to share inclusive stuff in the same time try to avoide stuffs that are sensitive to avoide unnecessary judgemental stuff being placed on me. I have to be very careful but also positive at the same time about political correctness because I am a public figure myself.

·       Delivering information in a connected society requires verifiable resources; how to build a PLN to rely on?

first try to expland and reach out to as much people as possible, use your own resource for exmaple if you are a worker, try to build around first your company’s resource and the resource of you boss, and after you expand fast you are able to filter out the unprofessional ones and then pick more reliable options that are verifiable from a professional field. If you are a student, you can reach out to you communities and proffesors for help to build around PLN.

·       Identify the risks and benefits of engaging with a public audience in a media space – what are the risks for a public figure or person in a position of trust (educator, lawyer, government official)?

You can be held accountable for the things you’ve said, since it could potentially have a huge impact on the other’s action, you have to take the responsibility of monitoring the things you say because it can highly dictated the actions and outcomes of people who you are with when you are a public figure or in a positional of trust.

What are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from with messaging that impacts the community?

An influential inclusive PLN can definitely bring people together. If it is a big PLN with a lot of subscribers, it will have minority viewers, this will make the viewers feel more welcomed seeing that their distinct group of a minority status is featured and given respect in the community. Seeing it gave them a feeling of being recognized and included. While since it is a big learning network it will have a lot of prestige among the people that follows it, therefore other people that sees the minority group being featured there will also think that they are included in the big community and will be thus raised with the awareness that this community is an inclusive community that embraces all sort of people with different background and origins. Therefore overall I would say it promotes social inclusiveness for different minority groups when you have a highly followed and recognized PLN network that is spreading inclusivity around. After people viewed post that features different groups it will be in their subconscious mind that the communities also cares about these groups and they are just like the majority group being viewed as a norm without having to face any extra judgment, it leads to one message – the community we live in is an inclusive community.