Digital Citizenship, Activism, and Social Media #UDMWF

MATHIEU PLOURDE & PAUL HYDE
JULY 27, 2015
M. PLOURDE - DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP #UDMWF 1

Mathieu Plourde
Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Candidate
M.B.A.
Educational Technologist/LMS Project Leader
IT-Academic Technology Services
University of Delaware
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@mathplourdebit.ly/mathplourde

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Do you have a _______ account?
◦ Yes.
◦ No.

“Our unity as a nation is sustained by free
communication of thought and by easy
transportation of people and goods. The
ceaseless flow of information throughout
the Republic is matched by individual and
commercial movement over a vast system
of interconnected highways crisscrossing
the country and joining at our national
borders with friendly neighbors to the
north and south.
- President Eisenhower, 1955
Source:FederalHighwayAdministration

DATA ABOUT WEB USAGE

Source: Internet Live Stats

Author Web Page
Audience
Audience
Audience
Reference: Grenier (2007)

Web
Page
Author/
Audience
Author/
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Author/
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Reference: Grenier (2007)

Source:GeoffLivingston

“By 2015, at the rate the world is
building and consuming
smartphones, we’re going to have
4.5 billion such devices connecting
people worldwide.”
- Michael Saylor, The Mobile Wave
(Kindle edition, location 71)

WHERE IS THE VOICE OF THE DISENFRANCHISED?

NEW LITERACIES IN A CONNECTED WORLD

Published in 2012
ISBN: 9780262526135
http://amzn.com/B007D5UP9G

“… attention is a skill that must
be learned, shaped, practiced;
this skill must evolve if we are
to evolve.”
- Howard Rheingold
Source: J E Theriot
on Flickr.com

http://youtu.be/MWGOjRnTmoA

If someone googled your name, would they find
you?
◦ Yes.
◦ No.

If someone found your social media profile,
would they consider you a trusted source?
◦ Yes.
◦ No.
◦ OMG, no way!

Source: Angela Hamblen on Flickr.com

EXTERNAL
INFORMATION
SOURCERECEIVED
INFORMATION
FORWARDED
INFORMATION
SHARED
INFORMATION
STORED
INFORMATION

EXTERNAL
INFORMATION
SOURCERECEIVED
INFORMATION
FORWARDED
INFORMATION
SHARED
INFORMATION
STORED
INFORMATION
CURATION
(aka making the web a better place)

https://sites.udel.edu/open/finding/

http://disrupt-africa.com/2015/07/5-african-e-learning-startups-to-watch/

CREATING COMPELLING STORIES ONLINE

http://invisiblechildren.com/kony/
http://www.lracrisistracker.com/

As described in Made to Stick, Heath and Heath (2007)
SIMPLE
UNEXPECTED
CONCRETE
CREDIBLE
EMOTIONAL
STORY

https://youtu.be/L0IsLnNMCIE
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2014/08/29/the-als-
ice-bucket-challenge-has-raised-100m-but-its-finally-cooling-off/

GATHERING SUPPORT AND FUNDS FOR YOUR
CAUSE

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201306/eric-
markowitz/how-to-choose-a-crowdfunder.html

http://www.kiva.org/

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES HAVE A DARK SIDE TOO

“Slacktivists don’t have to spend a
Saturday doing hard labor to build a home
or sacrifice a portion of their monthly
entertainment budget to a cause. They
don’t even have to move from behind the
screens of their electronic devices.”
- Laura Seay,
Washington Post, March 12, 2014

“In Syria, ‘Facebook is a great database for the government
now,’ said Ahed al-Hindi, a Syrian activist who was arrested at
an Internet cafe in Damascus in 2006 and left his country
after being released from jail. Mr. Hindi, now with the United
States-based group CyberDissidents.org, said he believes that
Facebook is doing more good than harm, helping activists
form virtual organizations that could never survive if they
met face to face.”
- Scott Shane
New York Times, January 29, 2011

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/14/nsa-utah-data-facility
"What's slow to dawn on
people is that this level of
surveillance is
technologically and
economically within our
grasp.“
-Brewster Kahle

Source: Marco Crupi on Flickr.com Source: Andrew West on Flickr.com

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