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Mapping your digital footprint

Mapping your online engagement is a useful way of helping you to understand the extent of your digital footprint. White and Cornu (2011) identified two types of online participation: visitor and resident.  

A visitor is someone who only uses online tools for an end goal e.g. booking a ticket.  A resident is someone who shares photos on social media.

Watch this video and decide whether you are a visitor or a resident and then use the downloadable map to plot your engagement.  

Visitors and Residents mapping activity
White, D.S. & Le Cornu, A. (2011) Visitors and Residences: A new typology for online engagement. Available: https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/3171/3049 (Accessed: 10 July 2020).