Chirp chirp, chirp chirp! Oh wait, not that kind of twittering. Other than the six months where I worked for the Leeds Humanities Research Institute as an administrative intern, I have never used twitter, though I occasionally gawk at the feeds of others. I will be following the strand of this post for those who… Read more Thing 7: Twitter
How to make online content accessible is not something I know a lot about but increasingly comes up in my interactions with library users. Services to support our students and staff with disabilities are split across a few different areas of the university, so knowing more about web accessibility can help me anticipate and avoid… Read more Thing 6: Accessibility
In this post, I will reflect on diversity and representation in online communication. The prompt for this post asks us to focus on this through the lens of emojis/emotions and the release of diverse emoji choices in 2015 by Apple and 2016 by Facebook. EMOJIS The initial controversy over the release of diverse emojis almost… Read more Thing 5: Diversity
The fourth thing focuses on digital security through the lens of smartphones. This week , we are asked to read about smartphone security, explore what data the apps on our phones are sharing, and reflect on the result. What I found When I started looking at my phone, I expected to see relatively little data… Read more Thing 4: Digital Security