Media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices: A post-intentional phenomenology

Visitors / Residents - glossary note

This framework was developed by White and Cornu, 2017 as a way to explore relationships people have with/within digital environments, platforms and technologies. This typology used the metaphor of a neighbourhood, where you may ‘visit’ or where you are fully engaged as a ‘resident’ of that space. Visitors are described as needing to view concrete benefits from platform use, and not likely to have a persistent online profile within digital spaces. Visitors are “users, not members, of the Web and place little value in belonging online” (paragraph 22). Residents easily navigate within online spaces, spend time with others, are likely to belong to online communities, and have social platform profiles (White & Cornu, 2017). The difference between visitors and residents is platform dependent, a flexible continuum based on purpose and need, and impacted by “factors such as conceptions of privacy and the notions of friendship” (paragraph 29). A graphic example of a mapping of V/R is provided for clarity.

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