online presence
Guest Post: What’s in a Category: Definitions of Authenticity, Transparency, and the Social-Bot
By Eseohe Ojo on March 30, 2020 | Tagged with Bots, Data, Digital Privacy Act, Digital Security, PIPEDA, Surveillance Capitalism
What’s in a Category: Definitions of Authenticity, Transparency, and the Social-Bot by Nicholas Lindsay Lewis After Surveillance Capitalism, Soshana Zuboff’s 2018 magnum opus on data and the platform economy, it is safe to establish two premises. The first, that the process of identifying users is how social media platforms monetize their operations and the second, that […]
Guest Post: Social Media Lockdown on the Job Hunt: Who is to Blame?
By Eseohe Ojo on March 16, 2020 | Tagged with digital dossier, job hunting, job seeking, Social media
Guest Post: Social Media Lockdown on the Job hunt: Who is to Blame? by Patty Facy It seems as though every millennial who has gone job hunting is aware of the Social Media Lockdown. Close your accounts, hide all mentions of your name, untag yourself from unsavoury photos and content; build a fortress to protect […]
Guest Post: Are Instagram Stories As Safe As You Think?
By Eseohe Ojo on March 2, 2020 | Tagged with Digital Security, Instagram, Instagram Stories, Online Safety
Guest Post: Are Instagram Stories As Safe As You Think? By Priyaa Sathiyaseelan In the year 2006, Time magazine chose the People of the year to be You – to recognize the millions of people who anonymously contribute user-generated content to Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, and the multitudes of other websites featuring user contribution. Because without […]
Guest Post: Look at Me! Look at Me!: Instagramming an Altered Version of Ourselves
By Eseohe Ojo on February 18, 2020 | Tagged with Digital identity, Instagram, Online Presence, Social media
Guest Post: Look at Me! Look at Me!: Instagramming an Altered Version of Ourselves By Delicia Ansalem Many young people, myself included, rely on social media quite a lot. As a visual platform, it’s easy to share experiences within seconds, sometimes even over-documenting. Overall, a person’s profile and highlights can say a lot about them. […]
Dealing with Online Hate
By Eseohe Ojo on February 7, 2020 | Tagged with Digital Security, online harrassment, online hate, Online Safety
Quotes in the post are from Dylan Marron unless otherwise indicated. Online Hate takes various forms. It ranges from the slightly uncomfortable to the threatening, but it is never any less difficult to deal with. Digital Tattoo was at the 2020 UBC Student Leadership Conference held on January 11, 2020 and had a booth at […]
Guest Post: The Rise and Impact of Twitter Bots in Political Elections
By Eseohe Ojo on February 4, 2020 | Tagged with Digital Security, Online Safety
“The Rise and Impact of Twitter Bots in Political Elections” By Eve Cuthbertson As the 2019 Canadian Federal election comes to a close and the 2020 US election heats up, it’s important to discuss the impact of social media on our democracies – specifically, Twitter bots. Computer scientists at the University of Southern California recently […]
Guest Post: I Have a Problem – #socialmediaaddiction
By Eseohe Ojo on January 15, 2020 | Tagged with Addiction, screen addiction, Social media
Happy New Year from Digital Tattoo! We hope your new year, new me resolutions are still going strong. While you’re working on those, here’s an interesting post to think about. This post is part of a series of guest posts developed in collaboration with Digital Tattoo and Faculty at the University of Toronto’s iSchool […]
Opinion: Why I Deleted my Instagram and Haven’t Looked Back
By defne inceoglu on November 6, 2019 | Tagged with facebook, followers, Instagram, Social media, social presence
One day in December 2018, in the throes of the tail end of my first semester of graduate school, I examined my iPhone’s Screen Time application. This new iOS app had been introduced not too long ago, just earlier in the year. What I saw left a knot in my stomach. I couldn’t believe it! […]
A Failed Instagram Experiment.
By samantha summers on October 23, 2019 | Tagged with Gender, Instagram, privacy
Back in the summer, I had what I thought was an excellent idea. I would open a new Instagram account and, for one month, try to live life like an influencer. I hoped it would be an experiment that shed some light on the impact living a public digital life could have on a person. […]
What Does Gender Have to Do with Digital Identity?
By Eseohe Ojo on June 25, 2019 | Tagged with Digital identity, Digital Security, Gender, Online Safety
How does gender affect our experience of the modern, digital world we live in? Online spaces reflect offline realities with the added consequences of permanence, a wider audience, and increased visibility. We all have our different digital challenges and experiences but gender brings an added layer online just as it does offline. There are various […]
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