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Personal Connections in the Digital Age Nancy K. Baym
Publisher: Polity

Connectivism has been lauded as a 'learning theory for the digital age', and as such seeks to describe how students who use personalised, online and collaborative tools learn in different ways to previous generations of students. For many households, the access and the information libraries offer have been interdependent long before the digital age, Kent Oliver said; without the free access the library provides, many cannot get the information they need. In Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Nancy Baym quotes futurist Faith Popcorn in her discussion of Technological Determinism and the impact of technology on society. Today on the CBC, on the show called 'Spark', there was a good bit on a book entitled 'Personal Connections in the Digital Age'. Another person that would agree with this would be the writer of "Personal Connections in the Digital Age", Nancy K. €�I think there's a real inaccuracy . In today's digital age, personal connection and relationships have arguably been sacrificed on the altar of technological efficiency. Colin Carney, Return, archival digital print. Social media has become a dominant group of web applications and services we use to communicate to each other online. The essence of Siemens' His counterargument is that through the use of networked technologies, learning can now be distributed outside the learner, within personal learning communities and across social networks. In these first two chapters of Personal Connections in the Digital Age by Nancy Baym, many good points about communicating through technology have been brought up. Post image for The Importance of Female Friendships in the Digital Age. In Nancy Baym's book, Personal Connections in a Digital Age, she says that online groups provide contexts for forming interpersonal relationships. For connections to the heart of the community, libraries have always been a way for parents and children to grow to love learning, and earning the knowledge which lasts them a lifetime. If the phenomenal rise of sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linked in has shown anything, it is that in the digital age, people value personal connections.