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For me, this topic was one I had not fully considered before. In a way, I just took the fact my university pays for my access to content for granted. I hadn’t fully appreciated the time or money behind the material that I have been using for the last few years. When I was researching … More My review of topic 5: The Open Access Debate

“Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment.” For one of my modules this semester, I was asked to assess the causal relationship of an environmental factor and health outcome. Sir Austin Bradford Hill states that medical plausibility is … More The open access movement

  Since writing my own post last week about the ethical issues of privacy in employment, I have been constantly reviewing my social media, and every time I go to tweet or post something – I think to myself “could this be scrutinised by future employers?” Learning how the majority of employers use social media … More A review of the ethical problem of privacy

  In my previous posts, the issue of online privacy and employment were a constant theme. I warned that in order to protect your online professional profile your social media should be kept private, but realistically, can we actually stop people finding out information that we have actively put on to our social media accounts? I definitely … More I spy with my little eye…. Everything about you online

This topic has been interesting. I have learnt people have very different ideas on how we should be building an authentic professional online profile. Whereas I believe we should be mainly focusing on our professional accounts like LinkedIn and monitoring our social networks for potential employers, Georgina focuses on building a professional network primarily through … More Is your online professional profile authentic? A review of Topic Three

Even before my previous blog post about multiple online identities I knew that I should keep my personal and professional life separate. During my summer internship a colleague of mine suggested I set up a LinkedIn account to expand my professional network. However, setting it up was not as easy as I thought.  As you … More Creating an authentic online Profile: are you interesting?

It is our choice as to how people perceive us online. What people see is what we put out there, in a way this can be a blessing or curse. As most of us know, what we do put online will forever be online (Aresta et al.) and everything is linked, from Facebook to Linked … More Playing Hide and Seek: the pros and cons of Multiple Online Indentities