Mapping Digital Spaces
Have you ever wondered where you spend most of your time digitally and how that relates to your daily life? We choose who, what, when, where, why and how we want to interact daily, especially in any digital media space. David White created a map (Visitor-Resident) that will help you plot the apps/digital media you use to analyze how you are using it.
What Is Digital Mapping
Visitors and Residents are the names David created for two of the four quadrants that describe our interactions and digital engagement based on motivation and interest. The graph is broken up into four quadrants; visitor, resident, personal, and professional.
- Visitor- you utilize the Internet, apps, or any digital media as a collection of tools. You use it for what you need to do and are done. If it is considered "visitor" it leaves no social trace and you have defined goals.
- Resident- you utilized the Internet, apps, or any digital media as a network of "places" where you can be actively involved and engage with others. As a resident you establish being socially present.
- Personal- you utilize the Internet, apps, or any digital media for your personal use
- Institution- you utilize the Internet, apps or any digital media for work/school.
My Digital Map
(Image Source: Google Images)
My Digital Map made me aware of the areas in which I am a resident and the areas in which I am a visitor. I also liked that it help me organize digital spaces into personal and institutional. Right away, I noticed that I reside in more personal places, which makes sense if you know me personally. On my personal Instagram/Snapchat I can be myself, share my thoughts, and interact with my family and friends. I enjoy social media. The apps that are in visitor/personal are the some of same apps my peers or anyone else will have in that category because most of those apps are used for certain things (amazon music to listen to music) then you are done. I actually was surprised that I had a handful of apps in the resident/institutional quadrant. After watching the video, I noticed one of the major differences between visitor and resident is that if you are a visitor you are going in doing what you have to do and exiting. Unlike a resident, you join in discussions, comment, share etc. You are an active member of that "community." Remind 101 is one of my favorite apps ever! This is my 4th year using it in my classroom and every year I love it more. It helps me build a line of communication between my parents. They are also free to write to me. I have built relationships not only with my students, but with their parents thanks to this app! Moby max is another app that I continuously use to progress monitor my students. I assign them interventions and it allows me to interact with this students. This class has opened my eye to Blogger (blogging), which I love! I am excited to re-evaluate myself in a bit and see how much these things will change. I enjoyed this assignment.
Below is another resource to learn more about digital mapping
Hi Amelia,
ReplyDeleteI think you did a good job summing up the idea of mapping your digital spaces and what the difference is between visitor vs. resident. Before I went to read/watch this week's resources, I assumed visitor vs. resident was referring to how much time you spend using a particular tool, but after going through the materials, it makes more sense that it's referring to being an active member, as you said. I also like that you made the connection to the topic of community. :)
I thought it was really interesting having to think about all the tools I use on a regular basis. My digital spaces map is pretty full, and I even left some tools out that I probably could have added. Can you imagine what they'd look like if we included things we only use once in a while? I have apps on my phone like OpenTable and SpotHero that I rarely use and only keep for just in case I ever need it. I also had to think about where to place tools that would fit in more than one quadrant. For example, Facebook fits into my personal resident quadrant because I have my own personal page that I post on, but I also use that account to follow professional groups where I'm really just an observer, so it also fits into my professional visitor quadrant. I think it's kind of like how it looks like you use YouTube both personally and professionally, so it's right on the line. I decided to just put the Facebook logo twice. I like that this mapping strategy allows for us to make some of our own choices about how we put the map together.
Thanks for sharing!
- Allison
I was surprised to see you didn't have much overlap in applications fitting into both personal and professional. It looks as if YouTube is the only one that made the cut for both!
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