In terms of online communities and activities, Visitors and Residents typology also concerns with people’s privacy issues, which arouses my interests a lot. That’s why I chose this topic to discuss.

Wow:

  • Motivations and goals could also help people decide which online identity they are belonging.
  • For those people who do not want an online identity, they could choose to be a visitor to a specific Web, which allows them to hide their personal information to others and at the same time achieve their goals. For example, taking online classes.
  • Residents use the Web to build their social relationship with others; they treat the Web as a place to communicate, work, and study. Therefore, their personal information could be shown to others, since they have a digital identity.

Wonder:

  • I would like to investigate more about how to protect ourselves from identity theft.

Here is the article I am writing about:

https://cmadland.github.io/edci338-202201/articles.html#visitors-and-residents-a-new-typology-for-online-engagement

Here is my own Visitor/Resident map: