Photography & Construction of Identity by Blogging-Myassignment

Question: Requires you to use various media to construct a blog post in which you critically and creatively reflect on the issue of online identity, analyse your own online persona(s), and draw on scholarly sources to reinforce your ideas. Answer: Photography is a great way to spending time and capturing moments. This involves the practice of capturing still images from a specific background using high definition equipment made only for that purpose. For choosing a perfect shot, a photographer needs to choose the appropriate lens and film and then frame it according to the perfect shot required. In addition, the photographer can also use filters and lights for achieving enhancement features in the picture. This blog will present various photography materials, which will be used to share with friends and familiar persons. In addition, this blog will also be used to undertake various online identity-based measures for safe blogging. Construction of an online identity Identity is a way people recognize us and interact with us. Social identity is a method for online identification, which is used to make a name in the online community. The construction of online identities in the social world is a great way to increase awareness (Best, Manktelow and Taylor 2014 p. 28). The basic sites used for this are the social media sites, which quickly makes an impression in front of the minds of the users. The main concept used in any social media site is that users engage in the posts created and this, in turn, creates an impression among other people who are engaging in that post for the first time. Using these methods, the construction of an identity in the online world is very easy. Aspect of online identity I use the blog post for posting pictures related to photography because I am very passionate about it. I mainly use Instagram for sharing my pictures. The moments that have been captured by me are posted on my Instagram feeds (Forbes 2013 p. 107). Moreover, I also take pictures of beautiful places whenever during my visit to different countries. This is done by maintaining a private profile in Instagram where only my friends and families will be able to see my statuses. In addition to this, I also use Snapchat for sharing my daily routine pictures in it like going to a store or posting information about the weather. For Snapchat, the audience related to my posts is only my friends and my family as I use a private profile, which cannot be seen by everyone (Forbes 2013 p. 107). Facebook is another platform that is very effective in making an online identity. This platform is used by many people and this is the sole reason I use to make an online identity. However, I only use this platf orm for participating in online group conversations. This usually denotes the University group work or group assignments. I would like to use it for sharing my photos by creating a page. Another social media platform, which I use to make a name for myself, is the Twitter. This is a great place where people share posts, which are termed as tweets. These tweets carry information or some regular status update. I use this platform for sharing some facts, memes, news and quotes related to photography. However, I am trying to use it the right way to getting maximum exposure. Lastly, I use the Whatsapp messenger application to communicate with my friends and family. The Whatsapp messenger is a Smartphone application, which is used to communicate via texts or multimedia messages utilizing internet access (Kim and Ko 2012 p. 1483). As I study abroad, I use it to keep contact with my family and friends. However, the use of this application is basically adopted for conversing with only the people I know. Effectiveness and limitations The effectiveness of these adopted processes can be seen directly by the influence it creates. A social media is an effective tool for getting users committed to the services or products (Majchrzak et al. 2013 p. 52). This, in turn, increases the engagement of the product or the service in the market and this helps in creating an online presence in the market. All the above-mentioned platforms will be used to create an online identity for myself and I will post more photography related content. There are major limitations of these applied strategies. The first limitation is that the profiles and the post that will be shared are going to be public and this will lack the engagement from the vast audience all over the world (Gil de Ziga, Jung and Valenzuela 2012 p. 332). This will only be shared with friends and family and thus the engagement will lack the momentum it needs. The main requirements include assigning public profiles to all the social accounts. Build relationship The social profiles that I have made will be used to set up an online identity for myself. Although I have made these profiles private, I will make them go public after some time (Goh, Heng and Lin 2013 p. 88). The friends I have made and my family will be able to comment on my posts. After getting a successful post engagement from all my friends and families, I will make my posts go public so that they can share my posts to their accounts. This will help me to build my relationship with my audience and thus my online identity will be established on a massive scale (McGowan et al. 2012 p. 466). Interactions with an online community As I have said earlier that I use my Facebook profile to communicate with the online communities, the interactions it makes is a great way to bring traffic to my blogs (Forbes 2013 p. 108). This is a known and recognized component of digital marketing which is known as influencer marketing (Laroche, Habibi and Richard 2013 p. 78). The interactions that I make will eventually make them come into my blog. Similarly, I will also use the Facebook online communities based on photography and try to make good posts on them. This will make the members of the group to engage on my posts and on my blogs, which will increase my blog traffic (Best, Manktelow and Taylor 2014 p. 28). In addition, I will also try to befriend some people in the social media, Facebook with a good amount of followers and ask them to include my blog link in their next posts. In this way, I will increase my blog traffic. Thus, the blog, which I will make, will be used to make an identity for myself in the online media especially the social networks. The use of the social media has made innovations in the existing technologies and values (Chianucci and Cutini 2013 p. 133). This is the reason for the use of the social media to create a cultural identity and thus an online identity will be made successfully. 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