digital profile musings
This post started life as a comment on Yammer at RMIT (thanks, Hans).
Recently, Hans Tilstra was talking about digital twins – online identical models for offline objects. He talked about our personal digital twins, the representations of ourselves online. It is an intriguing idea, but not one that I really buy into.
Our various digital personas are too fragmented to be considered real twins. I think of online personas more as digital portraits. Some are pointillist – search results composed of tiny points of information. Some are abstract – the array of data that retailers collect about you, never fully realised, never really seen. Some, like Instagram, could be self-portraits. Others, like Facebook, may be family portraits.
Of all of these digital portraits, I think that there are three that are vital for any academic:
- LinkedIn: Among other things…
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Digital learning PD Dr Ann Lawless 