Community Engagement & PLN
What are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from with messaging that impacts the community?
A diverse and inclusive PLN is useful for solving the problem of information asymmetry. Firstly, it involves people of different ages, counties, races, and social statuses. Thus, it is helpful on the issue of asymmetric information since individuals could accept and share various information and opinions through a diverse PLN. Also, an inclusive PLN is beneficial for both sides. Since it involves diverse voices, others may find some posts helpful through your PLN and then repost them. This action does not only raise your prestige but also amplify your voice to help more needed people. Especially for people who want to call on actions like Markiel Simpson, enhancing prestige is important. Mr Simpson mentions that he involves with a non-for-profit organization that aims to dismantle systemic racism. For this purpose, being well-known is vital. He needs to make as many people as he can notice the problems and then solve the issues. This is what an inclusive PLN can do. The best example is when he mentions others retweeting his messages. He also talks about how he is surprised when he noticed that the president of ECTDF retweeted his posts. This is definitely a good news for his community. I think that he could be noticed by the president is most likely because of the inclusiveness of his PLN since the inclusiveness allows people to hit and retweet his tweet too many times to let the president ignore the post.
I believe that every individual’s PLN will amplify the views of others at some level. Although it does depend on how many followers you have on Facebook or Twitter, your post or PLN can still be noticed by others via hashtags or platforms’ recommendations. Thus, as long as you repost or comment on someone’s views, you are amplifying their voices.
Reference:
MILLER. (June 2, 2021). EDCI – 338 MARKIEL SIMPSON [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsoDHGaXNNs