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Equipping future nonprofit professionals with digital literacies for the 21st century
1. Equipping Future Nonprofit
Professionals with Digital
Literacies for the 21st Century
Jimmy A. Young, Ph.D., MSW, MPA
California State University San Marcos
Twitter: @JimmySW
Web: www.JimmySW.wordpress.com
email: jyoung@csusm.edu
2. Overview
• What are Digital Literacies?
• Literature on Digital Competencies
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Findings
• Discussion
• Implications
3. What are Digital Literacies?
• New Media or Information Communication
Technologies?
• New Media Literacies (NML’s) are cultural
competencies and social skills that build upon
the traditional definition of media literacy
(Jenkins et al., 2009).
• Participatory Culture
5. What are New Media Literacies?
• New Media Literacies (NML’s) are cultural
competencies and social skills that build upon
the traditional definition of media literacy
(Jenkins et al., 2009).
• Technical Skills
• Cultural Competencies
6. What are New Media Literacies?
• Play
• Performance
• Simulation
• Appropriation
• Multitasking:
• Distributed Cognition
• Collective Intelligence
• Judgment
• Transmedia Navigation
• Networking
• Negotiation
• Visualization
7. Literature
• Online Learning and Distance Education (Coe &
Elliot, 1999; Thyer, Artlet, Markward, & Dozier 1998;
Vernon, Vakalahi et al., 2009; Wolfson et al., 2005).
• ICT Literacy and Digital Competencies (Ayala, 2009;
McNutt, 2008; McNutt & Menon, 2008; Moore, 2005;
Mukherjee & Clark, 2012; Parrot & Madoc-Jones, 2008;
Perron et al., 2010and York, 2008).
• Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice
(NASW/ASWB, 2005)
• Students and New Media (Baldridge, McAdams, Reed, &
Moran, 2013; Hitchcock & Battista, 2013; Young, 2014).
8. Study Objectives
• Demonstrate how to enhance the Digital
Literacies of students through the evaluation
of a nonprofit organizations and digital
advocacy course.
• Students will increase their level of digital
literacies through participation in the course.
9. About the Course
• The purpose of the course was to examine the role of
social media in the human service and nonprofit sector
and how to utilize social media for a variety of
purposes. The course identified what social media is
and how it can be used for marketing,
communications, and advocacy within human services
in addition to how social media promotes civic
engagement. Students learned about participatory
culture and new media literacies through the discovery
of social media platforms and how to apply this
knowledge, which promotes critical thinking skills,
encourages collaborative problem solving, and
acknowledges the role of social media in forming
networks and affiliations that can strengthen civic
engagement.
10. Methodology
• Design
• Quasi-experimental Pretest Posttest Design
• Survey Instrument consisting of 12 separate
subscales that match the 12 NML identified
by Jenkins et al. (2009).
• Data Collection
• Qualtrics Survey Software
• Start & End of Semester
• Data Analysis
• Descriptive Statistics
• T-test and ANOVA
11. Findings
• Reliability of the Instrument
• Cronbach’s α= 0.78
• Sample size N= 95 overall, N=76 Pre & Posttest
• Response rate = 80%
• 84.3% Female and 15.7% Male
• 85.5% Caucasian and 14.5% students of color
• Average Age was 22.9 years old (SD=4.932)
13. Discussion
• Digital literacy levels increased after
participation in the course.
• Infusing courses with digital literacies content
can impact the competence and skills of
students.
• Largest increases were seen in the skills of
• Appropriation
• Judgment
• Multitasking
• Networking
14. Implications
• Increase in digital literacies is necessary.
• But what about Participatory Culture?
• The main challenge that confronts students as
they venture into the nonprofit & voluntary
sector in the modern world is related to
learning how to effectively interact in digital
spaces and how to access and put into use
those resources in a professional and
knowledgeable way.
15. Conclusion
The mechanisms people use to engage with each
other are evolving and education must evolve as well
to include focused and targeted efforts that teach
students how to engage to improve their digital
literacy and to engage thoughtfully and purposefully
in digital spaces.
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Editor's Notes
Henry Jenkins is a media studies scholar who has been studying and writing about Participatory Culture for years. He describes Participatory Culture as a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, where strong support for creating and sharing creations exists and there is some type of informal mentorship whereby experienced participants pass along knowledge to novices” (Jenkins, Clinton, Purushotma, Robison, & Weigel, 2009, p. 3). A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter and feel some degree of social connection with one another. A Participatory culture shifts the focus from individual expression to one of community involvement.
So examples of Participatory Culture include the opportunity for freedom of expression by remixing digital content to share messages in online communities such as Facebook or YouTube. Participatory culture provides the opportunity to work in teams and use collaborative problem solving to develop new knowledge such as through Wikipedia; and participatory culture shapes the flow of media content through blogging, videos, and podcasts (Jenkins et al., 2009).
Additionally, this slide represents and example of Participatory Culture as Henry Jenkins himself shared that he was getting ready to deliver a presentation on Participatory Culture and so he typed that phrase into Google and discovered this slide. Someone had used his white paper and to create this slide to sum up the main points in a way that looks better than something he could have created on his own. So Jenkins explains that as we create content and put it out on the web than people are able to use this and remix it into something that can be incredibly engaging and powerful.
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To be clear, participatory culture is not simply Web 2.0 or social media. In fact Jenkins would argue that participatory culture existed before the Internet but that social media tools have expanded the opportunities of participatory culture and what one can now do (TEDxTalks, 2010).
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Jenkins et al., (2009) Identified 12 new media literacies in his white paper “Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.”
In the interest of time, I’m not going to go through these but his white paper is freely available if you search for it on google.
This study is grounded in the New Media Literacies (NML) Framework and the concept of participatory culture as identified by Jenkins et al. (2009). The NML Framework and participatory culture resonates with the ecological perspective of the social work profession because it envisions people as active participants in the environment, or the new digital environment. “The emphasis is not just on how people respond to media messages, but also on how they engage proactively in a media world where production, participation, social group formation, and high levels of nonprofessional expertise are prevalent” (Gee, 2010, p. 36).
The idea with participatory culture and new media literacies is that many aspects of our lives are coalescing around diverse interests, whether it be politics, religion, economics, or something purely personal (Potter, 2013), and we are now sharing this with individuals from around the world. New media has altered the meaning of literacy to require new habits of mind, new ways of processing culture and interacting with the world (Jenkins et al., 2009). This is having a dramatic impact on education and is clearly impacting our professional as well.
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Play: the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem solving. Performance: the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery. Simulation: the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes. Appropriation: the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. Multitasking: the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details. Distributed Cognition: the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities. Collective Intelligence: the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal. Judgment: the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources. Transmedia Navigation: the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities. Networking: the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information. Negotiation: the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms. Visualization: the ability to translate information into visual models and understand the information visual models are communicating as a key method for coping with large data sets and being able to make sense of the complexity of our environment.
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Lastly, a common misunderstanding of technology is the focus on what the tools do and do not allow. The conversation on digital technology and learning needs to include a focus on the participatory aspects of this new digital culture and how increasing knowledge around new media literacies can address the challenges we face as social work educators and the challenge of our students entering the profession. Expanding our view of new media, digital technology, and understanding participatory culture will help social work students to build upon the skills they bring to the classroom. Social work educators have the exciting opportunity to empower students to build upon those skills by incorporating new media literacies in a way that will expand knowledge, create opportunities for collaboration, and prepare students for social work practice in a new and diverse society.