BLOG #10 ENGAGING PLN

Network society entails a shift from the conventional models toward a complex model dealing with the interface between economics, culture, and technology and centered on the predominance of knowledge intensity and innovation content to maintain competitive advantage.

— From Information Society to Network Society: The Challenge

This week in EDCI 338, our guest speaker is trained nursing and now liaises with hospital groups across North America.

By considering the main idea of social media platform, we can find the benefits and drawbacks of our PLN…

If your PLN can  be used to help professional development post-course?

In my opinion, to make sure PLN help professional development post-course, we need to ensure that paying more attention on each PLN main point and describe our own idea briefly and clear. Post-course means that students have already learned the course before viewing the PLN, thus, it needs every PLN contains important themes and share different thoughts.

Can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities and on which platform does your emerging expertise get good exposure?

In some ways, PLN makes me understand more with the interface between economics, culture, and technology and centered on the predominance of knowledge intensity and innovation content to maintain competitive advantage (Guidice, 2013).

As for my program, in developing economies, social media allows to successfully abandon economic dependency on industries with a low added value, such as agriculture and raw materials extraction. On the other hand, the lack may be compensated by the use of social media platform as a communication tool that enables cooperation.

To consider emerging expertise, I believe that PLN improves my blogs more logical, detailed and organized, and it makes me update my instagram and Weibo frequently. After learning this course, I want to show myself more through social media platform rational.

Can you leverage your PLN in future endeavours?

In the modern society, technology is become the main communication method. People always talk and interact with each other by using social media chat room. In addition, many company use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… to post their official messages. In the future endeavours, it would focus more on communicating and interacting online to improve schedule of works. To be more specific, more and more newspaper companies are shutting down recently due to some news application on mobile phone, which is replaced by social media platform. PLN can also instead of part of hard copy to show bloggers’ thoughts and share their life. Castells examined the technological revolution and the social and economic changes related to it by elaborating a theory of the network society and viewing the global economy as a continuous flow of information (1996). Thus, I believe that PLN will have a great development prospect in future endeavours.

With consideration to the reading and video interview, how do you ensure that you expand your PLN via social media platforms into spaces that may be outside of your comfort zone?

To make sure that I expand my PLN via social media platforms into space that may be outside of my comfort zone, I think I need expand my PLN at different social media platforms. However, praise and criticism are mutual, and I realize that the more social media platforms we use, the more audiences we have, and meanwhile, the more comments and replies exist on our PLN. To outside of our comfort zone, firstly we need to treat praise and criticism rationally, and that can bring us a suitable comfort social media platform.

Reference:

Festa, G., Rossi, M., Kolte A. and Situm, M. (2020). Journal: European Business Review, 32(3), 425.

Castells, M. (1996). The rise of network society. The information age: Economy, society and culture. (Vol. 3). Oxford: Blackwell Publisher.