The general consensus with Wikipedia is amongst students is that it is a source of information that we MUST NOT site in academic writing. We have often been told, due to the fact that almost anyone can edit and add to Wikipedia pages, we should not consider it as a reliable source. Any page is […]

Well, who knew Good Hangouts were a thing?! I certainly didn’t. What I like about them is the layout. It is a very accessible tool and, although other platforms exist that are similar (Skype, facetime etc), Google Hangouts are available for a lot of people as one only has to have a google/hotmail account. So […]

Having been a Facebook user since 2009 (?!?!), I have become quite familiar with Facebook groups. I have been a member of various groups over the years, but the ones that are the most active for me right now are ones that concern my extracurricular activities. I am a member of Edinburgh University Women’s Association Football Club […]

Thing 7 was a difficult one for me as I have never had a Twitter account. I had previously not believed I could gather information from Twitter that I wouldn’t be able to get elsewhere. Furthermore, I was a little reluctant to immerse myself in online conversations that are usually contentious and opinionated. This probably stems […]

Most mornings, what I tend to do (like the obnoxious middle-class student that I am ) is read the Guardian online, in bed, with a cup of coffee before dragging myself to the library for another day of alternately looking at my screen and daydreaming about when the sun was shining that one time 4 […]

Thing 5 posed quite an interesting question; one that I hadn’t previously taken the time to think about which was: ‘Are diversified emojis only worsening the problem of segregation?’ One article on this topic seemed to think so. It argued that having options of ‘race’ within emojis are being used for further discrimination against race. […]

My fourth thing involved having a look at how to use my smartphone safely. Although smartphones are incredibly exciting devices that are becoming increasingly versatile in the way we use them (i.e. for email, social media, online banking etc), and changing the way we are interacting with the world, this is not without risks. As […]

Sooo, Thing 3 was all about digital footprinting. Relating similarly to the concept of ‘Carbon footprinting’, this is the act of leaving behind traces of your actions that can have more permanent and potentially harmful consequences. In the digital world, this constitutes online data in the form of: ‘what you have written, what others have […]

As a part of my final attempts to gain as much from my university experience as possible, I have decided to enroll myself in ’23 Things’; a list of digital learning tools that will enhance my understanding of the digital world and how to use it. I want to do this because I am generally […]