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.
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