making the case for digital citizenship
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A talk given at the Safer Internet Forum 2011 in Luxembourg, expanding on "Digital citizenship, briefly"TRANSCRIPT
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Making the Case forDigital Citizenship
Anne CollierExecutive Director, Editor
NetFamilyNews.orgCo-director
ConnectSafely.org
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Net in its ‘toddler phase’
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A living Internet
HuffingtonPost.com
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Content is social now
Pat Gaines
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Internet use is fluid
Tom Olliver
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Net is everywhere
Ben Heine
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Embedded in ‘real life’
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Mirrors offline life
Shoko Muraguchi
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Risk spectrum reflects life too
Marc Dezemery
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Social sites like oil rigs??
Calum Davidson
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• It’s protective • Consistent with today’s media environment• Promotes agency – critical thinking, self-actualization (for user-driven media)• Supports civic engagement online & off• Turns users into stakeholders (citizens)• Supports community as well as individual goals, well-being
So why digital citizenship?
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5 key elements• Rights and responsibilities• Participation or “civic engagement”• Norms of behavior or "good
citizenship" or etiquette• A sense of belonging or membership• Three literacies: tech, media, social
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The most basic definition
“The central task of citizenship is learning how
to be good to one another.”
– A.J. Patrick Liszkiewicz
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Proposed definitionCitizenship: the rights & responsibilities of full,
positive engagement in a participatory world
• Rights – access & participation, free speech, privacy, physical & psychological safety, safety of material and intellectual property
• Responsibilities – respect & civility => self & others; protecting own/others’ rights & property; respectful participation; learning/benefitting from the literacies of a networked world
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• Safety and support• Power – as agents for social good (online & offline)• Personal success in and with social media and life• Opportunities to collaborate with fellow change agents• Opportunities to co-create the social norms of social media• Professional training & leadership opportunities online and offline.
What’s in it for youth?
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Comments from a youth panel last month:
• “Digital citizenship sounds distant and abstract.”
• “Not taught and practiced in school, so how can we practice it?”
• “Maybe ‘participant’ is a better word than ‘citizen’.”
But can youth relate?!
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“If the notion of digital citizenship in
policy discourse is to have traction with its
constituents and prove effective, it is vital
that our understanding and use of the term
be directly informed by young people’s
values and insights.”
--Third & Strider, University of Western Sydney
No citizenshipwithout the citizens
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Thank you!Anne Collier