For my digital literacy narrative, I would like to discuss my relationship with communication and privacy while using the internet. Before quarantine officially begin back in March 2020, I started a blog as a means to further develop my digital skills and use my passion for writing as an outlet. But something that started out as simply a passion became a necessity during the lockdown months where face-to-face communication was all but gone. Having to adjust to a different type of communication while being able to talk to people all over the globe was something that allowed me to gain perspective and knowledge about the scope of the internet. For that reason, I would like to foreground my essay around WordPress, and how I created a blog where I would not simply be taking in other people’s content but partaking in the act of being a “content creator”.
In my essay, I also hope to compare and contrast blogging and WordPress as a whole with other mediums of social media that exist. I’m not sure yet if I also should focus on a specific social media platform(like Tik Tok, Youtube, Goodreads) to allow for a better flow in my essay when I make side-by-side comparisons but it is a course of action that I am considering. Either way, I want to discuss how, unlike Instagram and Facebook where many people post and share about their private lives openly, blogging as a digital literacy has some structures to limit the violation of privacy. These rules are not a requirement in the strict sense of the way but they do create an environment where they consider the role and importance of privacy. For example, many bloggers take on a pseudonym when writing as a way to keep some of their personal life private. A pseudonym in blogging often allows people to take on or create a blogging personality that centers around that person’s theme for their blog. With that being said, there is no “correct” way to blog but blogging as a whole and the platform of WordPress does embrace this attitude towards privacy while communicating.
February 23, 2022 at 1:55 pm
I’m really intrigued and captivated by your idea. I think it’s so cool that you had a blog, blogs were always something that interested me. You brought up a great point about privacy barriers as a blogger, specially the pseudonyms. Your digital literacy skills must be very broad, and I would want to read more about your story in-depth.
February 23, 2022 at 1:58 pm
Your idea is amazing and one that is not really spoken about. As you said many people tend to openly share their lives on social platforms without knowing how to refrain themselves from sharing too much. Despite blogging being a way of expressing yourself with the world there are a set of rules and limitations that one must follow that not many people are aware of. Privacy is a major are that is not talked about in the digital space in general.
February 23, 2022 at 2:22 pm
This seems like an interesting topic, given that I want to learn more about the different literacy skills you’ve enhanced through blogging. Blogs are always fun to read, so being a blogger must be fun and help alleviate your boredom.