Visitors and Residents

Visitor's: "understand the Web as akin to an untidy garden tool shed. They have defined a goal or task and go into the shed to select an appropriate tool which they use to attain their goal’ and ‘are unlikely to have any form of persistent profile online which projects their identity into the digital space"
Resident's: "see the Web as a place, perhaps like a park or a building in which there are clusters of friends and colleagues whom they can approach and with whom they can share information about their life and work. A proportion of their lives is actually lived out online where the distinction between online and off–line is increasingly blurred. Residents are happy to go online simply to spend time with others and they are likely to consider that they ‘belong’ to a community which is located in the virtual"
Visitor's: "understand the Web as akin to an untidy garden tool shed. They have defined a goal or task and go into the shed to select an appropriate tool which they use to attain their goal’ and ‘are unlikely to have any form of persistent profile online which projects their identity into the digital space"
Question: which do you think you are? – Visitor or resident?
David S. White and Le Cornu, A.
1. In our own view we think that as a visitor you would not use the internet for primarily social fulfilment, instead you would choose to access a variety of webpage for ‘specific purposes’ and as a resident, you are doing the opposite and primarily socializing online rather than researching and people will know that your present due to ‘significant evidence’. (White and Le Cornu 2011).
2. 'Spaces' - online and offline
3. 'This article proposes a continuum of ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ as a replacement for Prensky’s much dash;criticised Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants. Challenging the basic premises upon which Prensky constructed his typology, Visitors and Residents fulfil a similar purpose in mapping individuals’ engagement with the Web'.
  1. White, D. S. and Le Cornu, A. (2011) ‘Visitors and Residents; A new typology for online engagement’ [WWW]. First Monday, Volume 16, Number 9 - 5 September 2011. Available from: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/3171/3049 [Accessed 14/10/12].
    1. References; Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, and Timothy J. Dickey. 2010. The digital information seeker: Report of findings from selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC user behaviour projects. Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David White, and Donna Lanclos. 2011. Visitors and residents: What motivates engagement with the digital information environment? Proceedings of the 74th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, 48: 1-7. White, David S., and Alison Le Cornu. 2011. Visitors and residents: Towards a new typology for online engagement. First Monday 16(9).
  2. PRENSKY, M (2001) On the Horizon. Vol. 9 No. 5, MCB University Press.
    1. “singularity” - 'an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back' ... 'is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century'.
      1. "Digital Natives"... name for students who 'today are all “native speakers” of the digital language of computers, video games and the Internet'
    2. 'Today‟s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age'
      1. Statistics; 'Today‟s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV)'.
We determine that in society today a resident would be the younger generation and visitors would perhaps be an older adult. At some stage we think these two concepts overlap because a University student would fall into both categories because our time online is spend academically and socially.
1. Supporting opinion: 'Learners from both the UK and the US are participating in the project' ...'The pilot phase focused on the ‘Emerging’ educational stage which spans late stage secondary school and first year undergraduates. Phase 2 included interviews with participants in the three later educational stages - establishing (Second/third year undergraduate); embedding (Postgraduates, PhD students); and experienced (Scholars)'.
'wonder if the web is better thought of as an ever expanding space rather than a migrating community'.
1. WHITE. S .D (2011) TALL BLOG [WWW] Available from: http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2011/08/15/the-cost-of-residency/ [Accessed: 04/11/13].
  1. 'Online Platforms, Facebook, Google+, Twitter'
  2. 'The way this precious resource is spent, especially in the context of learning, needs to be better understood by those of us promoting the idea of digital literacy'.
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