I considered the Digital Practice Triangle, but honestly the Visitor versus Resident Framework resonated with me more. During the mapping process, I reflected upon how the bulk of my digital identity spans across the Personal/Institutional continuum, with more towards Visitor than Resident. For example, I mapped YouTube right in the middle, since I create videos on YouTube for students in my courses as well as for student employees (and even the Provost), while I also consume YouTube in my personal life, particularly Yoga With Adrienne at least three times weekly. I positioned LinkedIn as more Institutional (which I parenthetically label as Professional), yet I still am more of a Visitor since I post infrequently. Some of my digital self is purely personal, such as my use of Flipboard and Instagram. I inserted a dotted box absent of content in the Personal/Resident quadrant, as I post very little about myself, which is intentional. I’ll likely mention in my blog that I see the distinctions as a consumer, but know that whatever I post can live across “selves”, so I am very mindful.
autumm says
That “personal resident” quadrant is especially interesting isn’t it? I really like how you called out that you are mindfully absent in this area Paul. I don’t think that anyone needs to be in all of the quadrants or that any particular mapping is good or bad necessarily but that digital tools are part of our world and just thinking about how is it that we are interacting with them.