Digital and mental self presentation pptx

Digital and mental self

1. Prepared By: Gladys M, Babiera , RPm Digital and mental self

2. Digital self

3. Real Self –is what you are, your characteristics, your attributes and your personality. Ideal Self – is what you feel you should be; much of it due to environmental and social influences. On social media sites, we consider our profiles to be presentations of who we are. The real and ideal selves intersect through interaction with the social medium.; and the ideal is at least partially actualized. Real Self VS ideal Self

4. Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants Digital Natives are those who were born after 1980, who have access and skills to use digital technologies especially social media. They live most of their lives online, without distinguishing between online and offline. Digital natives and digital immigrants

5. Digital Immigrants – They are those people who were born prior to 1980; who were not born into the digital world but have, at some later point in our lives, become amazed by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology. Digital Immigrant teachers think that students or learners are the same as when they were students and that similar teaching methods of their teachers will work for their students now. Digital immigrants

6. Digital Identity Digital Identity has a number of different definitions in the literature. It can refer to the usernames and digital footprint that individuals choose and leave behind after using the internet for different purposes such as banking or purchasing goods.   Digital Identity – is formed by personal profiles, cultural capital and records – such as videos on YouTube. The digital realm indeed gives us the power to “determine how we are defined within the socio-cultural sphere”. While individuals are the product of their unique personal biography they are not entirely free to choose who they are because of social situations and interactions. It is “a conscious construction, it can evolve subconsciously over a period of time, or it could simply be a reflection of the user in real life” They go on a state that “ it is worryingly difficult to find the person in among all the digital artifice”. This is called self-regulated self-presentation. Digital identity

7. Digital Footprint or Digital Shadow – refers to one’s unique set of traceable digital activities, actions contributions and communications that are manifested in the Internet or on digital devices. A positive digital footprint can enhance a person’s reputation. Digital footprint/digital shadow

8. Passive Digital Footprint – is created when data is collected without the owner knowing, whereas active digital footprints are created when personal data is released deliberately by a user for the purpose of sharing information about oneself by means of websites or social media. Active Digital Footprint – can also be stored in many ways depending on the situation. In an online environment, a footprint can be stored by a user being logged into a site when making a post or change, with the registered name being connected to the edit. Two Main Classifications for Digital Footprints: Passive and Active

9. Impression Management – is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about themselves, another person, object or event. It is done by regulating and controlling information in social interaction. It was conceptualized by Erving Goffman a Canadian-American sociologist and writer in 1959., and this was expanded upon in 1967. Impression management

10. Implications of the Creating of Digital Self In an article published in 2012 in Forbes magazine, it was posited that women are now more active than men across major social media platforms such as twitter, Pinterest and Facebook have a stronger attachment to social networking than do men. Implications of the creating of digital self

11. The Digital self , as presented in social media, also places the people open to the voyeuristic gaze of others in uncountable small scale private performances that are socially mediated for public consumption on an often large scale. Digital self

12. Facebook and twitter differ from traditional web applications as pages are easy to create and edit; are easily accessible; promote and support mobility; have real time communication and are free or cost effective. Social media have the advantage of being real time applications that offer information in real time. Digital over Physical A digital identity has the potential to live forever where in the physical world we are faced with death. Traditionally genetic codes are passed on to offspring and offer a family history that lives forever, or through a lineage. An online identity is remembered for how it interacted in a particular time in a digital environment. Benefits of Social Media Usage

13. Here are some ways you can make sure your social media profiles are helping you network and not hurting your failure. Follow that college account and that business account you found in the scavenger hunt. Seeing their posts will inspire you to follow through on your goals and get you familiar with what is going on at that campus or in that industry. Use social media to reach out to organizations that may help you achieve your college and career pathway goals. Interact with more people you identified who are supportive of your goals, spend time with them in person. Social media can help you network, but make sure its not the only way you interact with your supporters. Try to keep everything you share on social media clean and professional, and keep your publicly shared content minimal. Always be kind How to manage social media profile

14. Google yourself Use Facebook Wisely Take charge of your photos Don’t overshare Monitor linking Accounts Use secondary Email Think before you click Steps to Creating a Positive Digital Footprint

15. Mental Self

16. On a surface level is our thought and on the deeper level, it is the domain of our beliefs, desires and values and goals. Our belief comprises our opinions and convictions about things that we hold as being true without any concrete proofs. Values are representation of what we embrace internally as essential and important in our life. They are by products of our thoughts that were formed in our early childhood. The importance of awareness of our mental self is an essential key for us to have a complete human experience. Mental self

17. Brain Structure The brain is the organ in our bodies that most directly controls our thoughts, emotions, and motivation. People usually think of the brain as being at the top of the body’s hierarchy- as the boss, with various other organs responding to it. The brain has three major regions: forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain. Brain structure

18. Forebrain – region of the brain located toward the top and front of the brain. It comprises the cerebral cortex, the basal ganglia, the limbic system, the thalamus and the hypothalamus. Cerebral Cortex – outer layer of t he cerebral hemisphere. It plays a vital role in our thinking and other mental processes. Basal Ganglia – are collections of neurons and crucial to motor function. Dysfunction of the basal ganglia can result in motor deficits. Limbic System – help us to adapt our behaviors flexibly in response to our changing environment. Septum –anger and fear Amygdala – anger and aggression Hippocampus – memory formation, shapes like seahorse, essential for flexible learning and spatial memory. Thalamus – relays incoming sensory information through groups of neurons that brain passes through the thalamus. Hypothalamus – regulates behaviour related to species survival: fighting, feeding, fleeing and mating. It is also active in regulating emotions and reactions to stress. forebrain

19. Midbrain – helps to control eye movement and coordination. The midbrain more important in non-mammals where it is the main source of control for visual and auditory information.   Brainstem – connects the forebrain to the spinal cord. It compromises the hypothalamus, the thalamus, the midbrain and the hindbrain. midbrain

20. Hindbrain – compromises the medualla oblongata, the pons, and the cerebellum. Medulla oblongata – controls heart activity and largely controls breathing, swallowing and digestion. It is also the places at which nerves from the left side of the body cross over to the right side of the brain. It derives its name from the Latin word for “bridge”. Pons Cerebellum Hind Brain

21. Attention is the concentration and focusing of mental effort. Attention is both selective and shifting. For example, when students take a test, they must be able to focus their mental effort on certain stimuli (test questions) while excluding other stimuli . Memory is the retention of information over time. It is central to mental life and to information processing. To successfully learn, students need to hold information and retrieve it when necessary. There are three important memory systems namely: sensory memory, short term memory and long term memory. Attention and memory