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After the semester of studying EDCI 338, I have learned more about the important role of social media in our modern society. As we are living in the age of advanced technology, social media is really essential, which goes deeper into the details of people’s daily life.

• Do you continue with your created content and your network, how do you use your skills in professional practise?

During the several weeks blog posting, I have already gradually adapted to post weekly blogs. I feel that the weekly blog is a periodic summary and recollection of my study and life. By learning this course, I have also developed the habit of blogging every week, and even now I updated my social networking application  more frequently. Social media provides a great platform for people to share their lives, experiences and opinions.

I plan to continue my weekly blog to share my life, learning experience and opinions. In some ways, it also improves my English expression ability. As a student with English as a second language, posting blog can enhance my English writing ability, moreover, reading comments and replying them can help me know whether the ideas are accepted by everyone or not. In general, posting blogs and creating contents are a great sense of achievement.

• Social media platform do change our life in everywhere…

In recent years, many instagrammer, YouTube and blogger become popular via social media platform. It has indeed changed the fate of many people, and many people with musical talent or perform talent to fulfill their dreams. To be illustrate, in the recent years of China’s rap boom, most rappers have emerged because of the increased use of social media. However,  social media cannot just bring fame and praise to them. Among many people who are becoming popular, people have different opinions on Kris Wu, a Chinese rapper, on social media. “The battle between Kris Wu and Hupu, a popular Chinese [social] media platform that focuses on sports news, has recently gone viral online, with millions of Wu’s fans and JRs (a nickname for Hupu fans) taking to Sina Weibo to defend their respective fandoms” (Li, 2018). People should treat both criticism and praise rational, and they do not need to care about excessive criticism. Everyone need to keep their balance level of acceptable comments on the social media platform.

Overall, after learning to create PLN and know social media platform, I feel that I know social network more deeply, and I consider many aspects that I have never thought before. In some ways, EDCI 338 change my life. It is said that knowledge is infinite, and I will keep pay more attention on social media, after all our society is updating in the era of developing and progressing science and technology.

Reference

Li, Yan. (2018). Chinese rapper Kris Wu becomes focal point of online feud. Retrieved November 29, 2020, from http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1112880.shtml

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.