The document discusses the concepts of digital citizenship and academic research. It defines digital citizens as people who are expected to participate in social processes online anytime through emerging technologies. Digital citizenship relates to the concept of democracy by allowing people to share their views and make their voices heard. The document contrasts passive and active information processing, with active citizens engaging with, constructing, responding to, and acting on information in various modalities like text, images, sound and video. It questions how digital citizenship relates to academic research at USF. Tips are provided for successful online research, including isolating the research need, stating questions clearly, and being patient when chatting with a librarian.

1. Academic Research &
Digital Citizenship
Your Librarian: Katherine Ahnberg
MLS: IU School of Informatics and Computing
Find me: USF Tampa Library / keahnberg@usf.edu / @lux_serviam

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“Today’s citizens are expected to attend social
processes anytime and anywhere. Thus, they are
required to have mastery in new literacies which
allow them to use all kinds of emerging
technologies to share their views and make their
voices heard."
Q: How might Digital Citizenship relate to
the concept of democracy?
Eylem, S., & Ali, S. (2013). New Literacies for Digital Citizenship. Contemporary
Educational Technology, 4(2), 126.

4. …are digital citizens global citizens?

5. Digital Citizens use good judgment
 What are some
characteristics of an
authoritative source?
 When do you want to
double check your
info? Why?

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…content is often being displayed with
multimodality, combining text, image, motion,
sound, music etc... Information processing has
been transformed from being passive receivers to
active information processors, who must engage,
construct, respond, and act with information.
Eylem, S., & Ali, S.
Q1: What’s the difference between
passive and active information
processing?
Q2: How does Digital Citizenship
relate to academic research at USF?

7. Thinktank Pair/Share- 5 Minutes
What are some examples of how you experience your
topic in social media use? What about in your class
work?
 Choice
 Conversation
 Curation
 Creation
 Collaboration

8. a real person

9. Tips for successful online research…
Digital Citizenship at USF
Remember: not every digital citizen has free access to a research expert.
Librarians staff the chat desk between 10 AM and 12 Midnight Sunday-Thurs
Here’s how to get the most out of chatting with a librarian:
 Isolate the part of your assignment that is research oriented
 Concisely tell the librarian why you need information
 State your questions clearly
 Be patient
 It’s ok to ask more than one question!

10. Questions?