Digital Citizenship Symposium

Calgary - September 24, 2010Slide Compilation by Dean Shareski & Alec Couros

The InappropriateContent & Activities - A Shifting Target

What Is Considered Offensive?

Inappropriate in Detail

1966

1971

1991

1996

2006

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy

“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.”

(Lev Grossman)@leverus

http://mediagirl.org/node/1535

“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)

Information Literacy

Crap detection 101

“I read it on the Internet”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54857253@N00/1077224439/

"Every man should have a built-in

automatic crap detector operating

inside him."

Ernest Hemingway, 1954

Digital is Different

easily copied

instantly shared

viewable by many

designed for remix

Authorship

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/internet/teaching_zack.cfm

http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/

~abutz

who is?

Shared Authorship

“The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.” Miikka Ryokas, computer science student

Is this real?

http://bit.ly/cooxuR

Does it matter if it’s true?

Vaccination

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23327787@N08/2983149263/

Phishing

"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."

“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/

Copyright/CopyleftCrisis of Intellectual Property

• 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?

re: Knowledge

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

Social Tools

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.

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)

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.

Cyberbullingand Online Harassment

The Internet facilitates unethical behaviour

"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

repeated

Distribution

Lack of Inhibition

http://bit.ly/cqvj0I

Anonymity canbreedirresponsibility

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21884267@N05/4262660945/

Random acts of Cyberbulling

Persistence

http://bit.ly/9kJ3m8

Home may no longer a safe place

http://www.flickr.com/photos/93378328@N00/25341275/

Angry Teacher Videos

The role of the bystander

http://www.flickr.com/photos/83808396@N00/295292181/

Online Predators Fact or Fiction?

“... 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.”

“One in five children is now approached by online predators.”

WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL

SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT IT’S NOT GIVING 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

DANGER IS BEING WILLING TO TALK 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.

danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/

“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when the 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

own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction. Money 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.”

Scared of our Shadow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/

Don’t talk to strangers?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/

“Parents are 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.”

What should be afraid of?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/

Marketing to KidsUbiquitous Reach

“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)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/silent_e/2430485978/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Online Predators Fact or Fiction?

“... 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.”

“One in five children is now approached by online predators.”

WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL

SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT IT’S NOT GIVING 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

DANGER IS BEING WILLING TO TALK 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.

danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/

“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when the 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

own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction. Money 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.”

Scared of our Shadow

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/

Don’t talk to strangers?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/

“Parents are 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.”

What should be afraid of?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/

Privacy dead or alive?

Privacy is about controlling how the information

flows

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45177065@N00/3778930204/

Privacy and Anonymity are not Synonymous

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22196205@N03/3656624938/

danah boyd’s 5

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33198938@N00/3353221215/

PII vs. PEIPersonal Identifiable Information Personal Embarrassing Information

by DEFAULT

with EFFORT

PRIVATE

PUBLIC

Weighing the benefits over the costs

That wasn’t intended for you!

I S aw Tw i l i g h t

http://www.flickr.com/photos/97041449@N00/3023085176/

Abundant Eavesdropping

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.

“there is something profoundly selfish in not sharing.” Jeff Jarvis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41716177@N00/4309027037/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54289096@N00/947189227/

Network LiteracyUnderstanding New Media

• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.

• enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community.

• networks form around shared interests & objects.

social networks

locks

parents as pirates

connected reality

“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important

literacies of the 21st century.”(Rheingold, 2010)

the utility of networks

(re)shaping collaboration

1. coding competence(the ability to decode texts)

(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)

2. semantic competence(the ability to make meaning)

(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)

3. pragmatic competence(functional literacy)

(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)

Professional Identities

4. critical competence(ability to select, analyze & participate in texts)

(Adapted from Four Resources Model, Freebody & Luke, 1990)

Reputation Management Controlling your Identity

Who’s managing your stuff?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3974469907/

You can’t NOT

play

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergiopics/1306083834/

Youhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/siutou_amy/2306794554/

http://budtheteacher.com/blog/2009/10/10/on-modeling/

Google’s not your only problem

Advocacy

http://www.google.com/profiles

What do other’s say about you?

Image: ilustra-respondendohttp://flickr.com/photos/felipearte/44808639/

Owing a domain name is about claiming your pieceof the internet. You’re no longer renting, you’re a home owner.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/

http://kylewebb.ca/

Is your Identity worth $10?

become a marketable asset?

When does your digital identity/profile

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48043300@N04/4607149956/

Your Studentshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/64121897@N00/62716956/

drunken pirate

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86592731@N00/175990728/

“I want my kids to be

found.”

Your Institutionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/64121897@N00/62716956/

You don’t control the message now

You probably never did

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larryontheprairie/4534921049/

Allow Constituents a Voice

Tell Stories

Give them places to Share

Let them share

PERSONAL BRAND

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38392802@N07/4669189625/

Losing the Ability to Forget

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14813074@N00/533355476/

Digital ActivismBeyond the Ineffectual

@zittrain• Technical infrastructure of

the web.

• Wikipedia’s content & form

• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through Internet-facilitated kindness, collaboration, & sharing.

The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (TED Talk)

• 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”.

The Machine is (Changing) Us(Personal Democracy Forum)

@mwesch

Heroes for our Mediated Culture

“... 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)