This document provides a summary of a digital citizenship symposium held in Calgary in 2010. It discusses several topics related to digital citizenship, including inappropriate content and activities online, authorship and shared authorship on the internet, information literacy, understanding copyright and copyleft, privacy and control of personal information, reputation management and digital identities, advocacy and activism online, and how the internet and digital technologies are changing users and society. Key themes discussed include the evolving nature of what is considered inappropriate online, challenges around verifying information sources and authenticity, and navigating issues of privacy, control and participation in online spaces.
12. “Some of the comments on
Youtube make you weep for the
future of humanity, just for the
spelling alone, never mind the
obscenity and naked hatred.”
@leverus
(Lev Grossman)
26. “Education ... has produced a vast
population able to read but unable
to distinguish what is worth
reading, an easy prey to
sensations and cheap appeals.”
~Trevelyan (1942)
42. "When I said that I was king of
forwards, you got to understand
that I don't come up with this stuff.
I just forward it along. You wouldn't
arrest a guy who was just passing
drugs from one guy to another."
43.
44.
45. “The order of things in broadcast is
"filter, then publish." The order
in communities is
"publish, then filter."
Clay Shirky
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37421747@N00/3251255441/
47. re: Knowledge
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what we
know?
• why do we know what we
know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
48.
49. The current era of intellectual property is
waning. It has been based on two faulty
assumptions made nearly three decades
ago: that since some intellectual property
(IP) is good, more must be better; and that
IP is about controlling knowledge rather
than sharing it. These assumptions are as
inaccurate in biotechnology ... as they are
in other fields from music to software.
Source:Innovation Partnership
53. Understanding Copyright, Copyleft & Openness
• Creative Commons and other
copyleft licenses help give us
access to quality tools, content,
and other resources.
• Openness has the potential to
transform our educational
institutions in terms of access
and quality of resources.
• Perhaps most important,
copyleft/openness gives us
power to choose how we share,
makes us interrogate when to do
so, and provides an explicit
mechanism for attribution.
54. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not
exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
55.
56. Understanding the Shift
• Students are now connected in
ways that we struggle to
understand, and in some cases,
choose to restrict.
• Lessig, one of the founders of the
Creative Commons, is an
advocate of (re)creating, (re)use
of content, to “say things
differently.”
• Sharing and collaboration are
necessary forces within a creative
and free culture.
61. repeated
"Cyberbullying
involves
the
use
of
information
and
communication
technologies
to
support
deliberate,
repeated,
and
hostile
behaviour
by
an
individual
or
group,
that
is
intended
to
harm
others."
Bill
Belsey
72. “... neither the Internet nor social networking sites pose
unusual dangers for minors. As has always been the
case, the underaged are most likely to be the victims of
sex crimes perpetrated by acquaintances and family
members, even if such cases are seldom featured on To
Catch a Predator.”
73. “One in five children is now
approached by online predators.”
74. WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL
IT’S NOT GIVING
SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT
OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION
THAT PUTS KID AT RISK. IT’S NOT HAVING A
BLOG OR A PERSONAL WEBSITE THAT DOES THAT EITHER. WHAT PUTS KIDS IN
BEING WILLING TO TALK
DANGER IS
ABOUT SEX ONLINE WITH
STRANGERS OR HAVING A PATTERN OF
MULTIPLE RISKY ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB LIKE GOING TO
SEX SITES AND CHAT ROOMS, MEETING LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE, KIND OF BEHAVING IN WHAT WE CALL LIKE AN
INTERNET DAREDEVIL.
75. the
“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when
troubled kids are right in front of us? Why
are we so obsessed with the Internet side of the puzzle when so many more kids are abused in their
Money
own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction.
and time is being spent focusing on the
things that people
fear rather than
the very real and
known risks that
kids face. This breaks my heart.”
danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/
76. Scared of our Shadow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/
77. Don’t talk to strangers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/
78. “Parentsare just bad at risk
assessment,” said Christie Barnes, a
mother of four and the author of “The Paranoid
Parents Guide.” “We are constantly
overestimating rare dangers
while underestimating
common ones.”
79. What should be afraid of?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/
84. “You are not Facebookʼs
customer. you are the product
that they sell to real customers -
advertisers. Forget this at your
peril.”
(Greenberg, 2010, via tweet)
95. “... neither the Internet nor social networking sites pose
unusual dangers for minors. As has always been the
case, the underaged are most likely to be the victims of
sex crimes perpetrated by acquaintances and family
members, even if such cases are seldom featured on To
Catch a Predator.”
96. “One in five children is now
approached by online predators.”
97. WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL
IT’S NOT GIVING
SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT
OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION
THAT PUTS KID AT RISK. IT’S NOT HAVING A
BLOG OR A PERSONAL WEBSITE THAT DOES THAT EITHER. WHAT PUTS KIDS IN
BEING WILLING TO TALK
DANGER IS
ABOUT SEX ONLINE WITH
STRANGERS OR HAVING A PATTERN OF
MULTIPLE RISKY ACTIVITIES ON THE WEB LIKE GOING TO
SEX SITES AND CHAT ROOMS, MEETING LOTS OF PEOPLE THERE, KIND OF BEHAVING IN WHAT WE CALL LIKE AN
INTERNET DAREDEVIL.
98. the
“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when
troubled kids are right in front of us? Why
are we so obsessed with the Internet side of the puzzle when so many more kids are abused in their
Money
own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction.
and time is being spent focusing on the
things that people
fear rather than
the very real and
known risks that
kids face. This breaks my heart.”
danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/
99. Scared of our Shadow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/
100. Don’t talk to strangers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/
101. “Parentsare just bad at risk
assessment,” said Christie Barnes, a
mother of four and the author of “The Paranoid
Parents Guide.” “We are constantly
overestimating rare dangers
while underestimating
common ones.”
102. What should be afraid of?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/
117. Just because something is publicly
accessible does not mean that people
want it to be publicized.
Making something that is public more public is a violation of privacy.
118.
119. “there is something
profoundly selfish
in not sharing.”
Jeff Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41716177@N00/4309027037/
165. What do other’s say
about you?
Image: ilustra-respondendo
http://flickr.com/photos/felipearte/44808639/
166.
167. Owing a domain name is
about claiming your piece
of the internet. You’re no
longer renting, you’re a
home owner.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/
189. The Web as Random Acts of Kindness
(TED Talk)
@zittrain
• Technical infrastructure of
the web.
• Wikipedia’s content & form
• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through
Internet-facilitated kindness,
collaboration, & sharing.
190.
191.
192.
193. The Machine is (Changing) Us
(Personal Democracy Forum)
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape
our tools and thereafter our tools
shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media
mitigate “connection without
constraint”. In many cases this
leaves to “tremendously deep
communities”.
@mwesch
202. “... the practice of freedom, the
means by which men & women
deal critically and creatively with
reality and discover how to
participate in the transformation
of their world”
(Freire, 1970)