Examples of digital citizenship and (media)literacy guides and projects
Dear colleagues, Right now we’re conducting research for the Dutch Royal Library to make an inventory of national and international digital citizenship initiatives. Our aim is to develop a guide that supports librarians, teachers and students to make an informed decision with regards to this topic when they want to organize an initiative or (research)project by themselves. I’m looking for examples of such guides internationally, from which we could learn (type of content, user experience design, media formats etc.). Examples of successful international digital citizenship projects are also very welcome! Additionally I would appreciate it very much if members of the AoIR community would like to share their definition of ‘digital citizenship’. We already learned that digital citizenship includes a broad array of definitions, often in direct connection with other terminology such as media literacy. Many thanks for your help! Kind regards also on behalf of our research team, Deike Schulz Deike Schulz, PhD Professor Organisations and Social Media NHL-Stenden University of Applied Sciences .........................................................................… Academy Communication & Creative Business Professorship Organisations & Social Media
Some examples from our Service-Learning work on Digital Citizenship initiated in 2002. Back then, it was about the digital divide, barriers to access, digital literacy, and anything else that might arise when seniors and students teamed up to promote the idea of getting people online to enhance citizenship. Empowerment through Service-Learning: Teaching Technology to Senior Citizens https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237603351_Empowerment_through_Servi... Digital Citizenship Parameters of the Digital Divide https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258189948_Digital_Citizenship_Param... Beyond the Digital Divide https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344189731_Beyond_the_Digital_Divide Generational Differences in Information Technology Use and Political Involvement https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220526942_Generational_Differences_... Lost in cyberspace: Barriers to bridging the digital divide in e-politics https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220438750_Lost_in_cyberspace_Barrie... There are a number of articles and chapters about "eRulemaking" as well that can all be understood as studies of digital citizenship: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stuart-Shulman/research The platform DiscoverText.com (free for academic researchers) was built specifically to process hundreds of thousands or even in some cases millions of public comments on proposed regulations by U.S. federal government agencies. Over the lifespan of the platform, more than 10 million public comments about a variety of endangered species listings have been an important though at times controversial wellspring of digital citizenship where technology was required to find the substantive input potentially lost in a comment deluge. Government 2.0: Making Connections Between Citizens, Data and Government https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262211389_Government_20_Making_Conn... The Case Against Mass E-mails: Perverse Incentives and Low Quality Public Participation in U.S. Federal Rulemaking https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43224684_The_Case_Against_Mass_E-ma... Stu On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 6:38 AM Deike Schulz via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Right now we’re conducting research for the Dutch Royal Library to make an inventory of national and international digital citizenship initiatives. Our aim is to develop a guide that supports librarians, teachers and students to make an informed decision with regards to this topic when they want to organize an initiative or (research)project by themselves. I’m looking for examples of such guides internationally, from which we could learn (type of content, user experience design, media formats etc.). Examples of successful international digital citizenship projects are also very welcome!
Additionally I would appreciate it very much if members of the AoIR community would like to share their definition of ‘digital citizenship’. We already learned that digital citizenship includes a broad array of definitions, often in direct connection with other terminology such as media literacy.
Many thanks for your help!
Kind regards also on behalf of our research team,
Deike Schulz
Deike Schulz, PhD
Professor Organisations and Social Media NHL-Stenden University of Applied Sciences .........................................................................… Academy Communication & Creative Business Professorship Organisations & Social Media
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Dear Deike, Much of my own thinking around 'digital citizenship' has been informed by works like Akwugo Emejulu and Callum McGregor's calls for 'radical digital citizenship' here (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508487.2016.1234494) To me, it's a really useful discussion that asks us to situate any discussion of technology and citizenship within the contexts of power it creates and sustains. They note, amongst other things that: * "By radical digital citizenship we mean praxis through which individuals and groups: (1) critically analyse the social, political, economic and environmental consequences of technologies in everyday life; (2) collectively deliberate and take action to build alternative and emancipatory technologies and technological practices" * "radical digital citizenship is not concerned with the instrumental process of acquiring digital literacy and capabilities in order to effectively function in an apparently ‘disrupted’ world. Instead, the cornerstone of a radical digital citizenship is the insistence that citizenship is a process of becoming". * "thinking about digital citizenship only in the context of technological change renders digital citizenship as an unproblematic and instrumental process of becoming an ‘effective’ citizen able to cope in a fast changing and disrupted new world of work and leisure. Constructing technology as innocent or neutral misunderstands the social relations of technology and its very real material consequences in our social world". In that way, it argues that digital citizenship isn't so much about literacy and a set of skills, as it is about citizenship as an non-static act. Thought I'd share this as a useful definition and a discussion that perhaps challenges some of the more conventional discussions on the topic. Hope it's useful! It's been really instrumental to my own thinking and teaching on the topic. All the best, Harry ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Deike Schulz via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: 09 January 2024 11:29 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Examples of digital citizenship and (media)literacy guides and projects Warning: This email is from outside the UEA system. Do not click on links or attachments unless you expect them from the sender and know the content is safe. Dear colleagues, Right now we’re conducting research for the Dutch Royal Library to make an inventory of national and international digital citizenship initiatives. Our aim is to develop a guide that supports librarians, teachers and students to make an informed decision with regards to this topic when they want to organize an initiative or (research)project by themselves. I’m looking for examples of such guides internationally, from which we could learn (type of content, user experience design, media formats etc.). Examples of successful international digital citizenship projects are also very welcome! Additionally I would appreciate it very much if members of the AoIR community would like to share their definition of ‘digital citizenship’. We already learned that digital citizenship includes a broad array of definitions, often in direct connection with other terminology such as media literacy. Many thanks for your help! Kind regards also on behalf of our research team, Deike Schulz Deike Schulz, PhD Professor Organisations and Social Media NHL-Stenden University of Applied Sciences .........................................................................… Academy Communication & Creative Business Professorship Organisations & Social Media _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faoir.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Charry.t.dyer%40uea.ac.uk%7C3c8cec959d6b46abf22608dc1107b4d8%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C638403971995923442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=oaDbXQUDBl0gN0n%2Bsu6XlbV5oym48TnqFpJWcyZW4GA%3D&reserved=0<http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flistserv.aoir.org%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Fair-l-aoir.org&data=05%7C02%7Charry.t.dyer%40uea.ac.uk%7C3c8cec959d6b46abf22608dc1107b4d8%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C638403971995923442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nXRy%2Brpr%2FOylVVxW8sGMqeI5igaWNpAlsuBgv2XcbvU%3D&reserved=0<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aoir.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7Charry.t.dyer%40uea.ac.uk%7C3c8cec959d6b46abf22608dc1107b4d8%7Cc65f8795ba3d43518a070865e5d8f090%7C0%7C0%7C638403971995923442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9ced3cypku14V6G4sQiebZYK1fTR0vtF3iWS3c3ymN4%3D&reserved=0<http://www.aoir.org/>
Dear Deike, all: This digital information literacy guide created by the EDMO hub NORDIS ( https://nordishub.eu/), spearheaded by the Finnish fact-checker Faktabaari, may interest you: https://faktabaari.fi/dil/digital-information-literacy-guide/ They have just published a literacy guide on AI in Finnish and will soon translate it into English. Best, Minna On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 6:35 AM Deike Schulz via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Right now we’re conducting research for the Dutch Royal Library to make an inventory of national and international digital citizenship initiatives. Our aim is to develop a guide that supports librarians, teachers and students to make an informed decision with regards to this topic when they want to organize an initiative or (research)project by themselves. I’m looking for examples of such guides internationally, from which we could learn (type of content, user experience design, media formats etc.). Examples of successful international digital citizenship projects are also very welcome!
Additionally I would appreciate it very much if members of the AoIR community would like to share their definition of ‘digital citizenship’. We already learned that digital citizenship includes a broad array of definitions, often in direct connection with other terminology such as media literacy.
Many thanks for your help!
Kind regards also on behalf of our research team,
Deike Schulz
Deike Schulz, PhD
Professor Organisations and Social Media NHL-Stenden University of Applied Sciences .........................................................................… Academy Communication & Creative Business Professorship Organisations & Social Media
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Dear Deike, Regarding media literacy, the critical pedagogy model of prof. Annette Markham (Utrecht University), with whom I've collaborated, can be a useful and interesting resource. Please find some examples below. *"A critical (theory) data literacy: tales from the field"*. A few days ago, an article was published detailing the critical data literacy model, elaborated on a 10-year set of critical pedagogy experiments conducted in Denmark, USA and Italy, and engaging more than 1,500 young adults. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0087/full/ht... <https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0087/full/html> *"Critical Pedagogy as a Response to Datafication".* Markham's manifesto about critical pedagogy to build data literacy. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077800418809470 *"Taking Data Literacy to the Streets: Critical Pedagogy in the Public Sphere".* Another article describing a series of public arts–based experiments to develop data literacy via self-reflexive public interventions. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077800419859024 *"Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication". *This piece draws on my PhD thesis and shows a recent application of Markham's model. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565221148108 All the best, RP On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 12:38, Deike Schulz via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Right now we’re conducting research for the Dutch Royal Library to make an inventory of national and international digital citizenship initiatives. Our aim is to develop a guide that supports librarians, teachers and students to make an informed decision with regards to this topic when they want to organize an initiative or (research)project by themselves. I’m looking for examples of such guides internationally, from which we could learn (type of content, user experience design, media formats etc.). Examples of successful international digital citizenship projects are also very welcome!
Additionally I would appreciate it very much if members of the AoIR community would like to share their definition of ‘digital citizenship’. We already learned that digital citizenship includes a broad array of definitions, often in direct connection with other terminology such as media literacy.
Many thanks for your help!
Kind regards also on behalf of our research team,
Deike Schulz
Deike Schulz, PhD
Professor Organisations and Social Media NHL-Stenden University of Applied Sciences .........................................................................… Academy Communication & Creative Business Professorship Organisations & Social Media
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Hello colleagues, Just catching up with this thread, and wanted to share that at University of Warwick, we are in the process of developing a digital empowerment hub with a repository of digital literacy and rights training materials and courses, especially for civil society and advocacy groups. We plan to launch the hub in mid-2024 and will share an update when it's ready - and invite colleagues on this list to share any trainings and resources that you want to share for the repository. Of course, we will credit and link as needed. The GNP+ Digital Literacy 101 toolkit <https://gnpplus.net/resource/digital-literacy-101/> may also be of interest to those working with communities living with or affected by HIV. Relatedly, we are working on a narrative review of digital literacy as well. On the digital empowerment hub - please contact Franco Serra, in copy here. Javier Guerrero-Castro and Bernard Koomson are working on the narrative review, also in copy. Hope this is helpful best Meg Davis Professor, Digital Health and Rights <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/digital-health-rights> Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies University of Warwick On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 14:38, Riccardo Pronzato via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Deike,
Regarding media literacy, the critical pedagogy model of prof. Annette Markham (Utrecht University), with whom I've collaborated, can be a useful and interesting resource. Please find some examples below.
*"A critical (theory) data literacy: tales from the field"*. A few days ago, an article was published detailing the critical data literacy model, elaborated on a 10-year set of critical pedagogy experiments conducted in Denmark, USA and Italy, and engaging more than 1,500 young adults.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0087/full/ht... < https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0087/full/ht...
*"Critical Pedagogy as a Response to Datafication".* Markham's manifesto about critical pedagogy to build data literacy. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077800418809470
*"Taking Data Literacy to the Streets: Critical Pedagogy in the Public Sphere".* Another article describing a series of public arts–based experiments to develop data literacy via self-reflexive public interventions. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077800419859024
*"Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication". *This piece draws on my PhD thesis and shows a recent application of Markham's model. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13548565221148108
All the best, RP
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 12:38, Deike Schulz via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Right now we’re conducting research for the Dutch Royal Library to make an inventory of national and international digital citizenship initiatives. Our aim is to develop a guide that supports librarians, teachers and students to make an informed decision with regards to this topic when they want to organize an initiative or (research)project by themselves. I’m looking for examples of such guides internationally, from which we could learn (type of content, user experience design, media formats etc.). Examples of successful international digital citizenship projects are also very welcome!
Additionally I would appreciate it very much if members of the AoIR community would like to share their definition of ‘digital citizenship’. We already learned that digital citizenship includes a broad array of definitions, often in direct connection with other terminology such as media literacy.
Many thanks for your help!
Kind regards also on behalf of our research team,
Deike Schulz
Deike Schulz, PhD
Professor Organisations and Social Media NHL-Stenden University of Applied Sciences
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Academy Communication & Creative Business Professorship Organisations & Social Media
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