This document provides a summary of a digital citizenship symposium held in Calgary in 2010. It discusses several topics related to digital citizenship, including inappropriate content and activities online, authorship and shared authorship on the internet, information literacy, understanding copyright and copyleft, privacy and control of personal information, reputation management and digital identities, advocacy and activism online, and how the internet and digital technologies are changing users and society. Key themes discussed include the evolving nature of what is considered inappropriate online, challenges around verifying information sources and authenticity, and navigating issues of privacy, control and participation in online spaces.

1. Digital Citizenship
Symposium
Calgary - September 24, 2010
Slide Compilation by Dean Shareski & Alec Couros

2. The Inappropriate
Content & Activities - A Shifting Target

3. What Is Considered Offensive?

4. Inappropriate in Detail

5. 1966

6. 1971

7. 1991

8. 1996

9. 2006

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

12. “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.”
@leverus
(Lev Grossman)

18. http://mediagirl.org/node/1535

26. “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)

27. Information Literacy
Crap detection 101

28. “I read it on the Internet”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54857253@N00/1077224439/

30. "Every man should
have a built-in
automatic crap
detector operating
inside him."
Ernest Hemingway, 1954

31. Digital is Different
easily copied viewable by many
instantly shared designed for remix

32. Authorship
~abutz
http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~abutz/
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/internet/teaching_zack.cfm

33. who is?

35. Shared Authorship

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

38. Is this real?
http://bit.ly/cooxuR

39. Does it matter if it’s true?

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

41. Phishing

42. "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."

45. “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/

46. Copyright/Copyleft
Crisis of Intellectual Property

47. re: Knowledge
• 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?

49. 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

52. Social Tools

53. 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.

54. 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)

56. 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.

58. Cyberbulling
and Online Harassment

59. The Internet facilitates unethical behaviour

61. repeated
"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

63. Distribution

64. Lack of Inhibition
http://bit.ly/cqvj0I

65. Anonymity can
breed
irresponsibility
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21884267@N05/4262660945/

66. Random acts of Cyberbulling

67. Persistence
http://bit.ly/9kJ3m8

68. Home may no longer a
safe place
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93378328@N00/25341275/

69. Angry Teacher Videos

70. The role of the bystander
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83808396@N00/295292181/

71. Online Predators
Fact or Fiction?

72. “... 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.”

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

74. WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL
IT’S NOT GIVING
SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT
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
BEING WILLING TO TALK
DANGER IS
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.

75. the
“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when
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
Money
own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction.
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.”
danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/

76. Scared of our Shadow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/

77. Don’t talk to strangers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/

78. “Parentsare 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.”

79. What should be afraid of?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/

80. Marketing to Kids
Ubiquitous Reach

84. “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)

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

94. Online Predators
Fact or Fiction?

95. “... 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.”

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

97. WHAT PUTS KIDS AT RISK FOR RECEIVING THE MOST SERIOUS KINDS OF SEXUAL
IT’S NOT GIVING
SOLICITATION ONLINE, SUGGESTS THAT
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
BEING WILLING TO TALK
DANGER IS
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.

98. the
“Why are we so obsessed with the registered sex offender side of the puzzle when
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
Money
own homes? I feel like this whole conversation has turned into a distraction.
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.”
danah boyd http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/3457701731/

99. Scared of our Shadow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68134711@N00/2255781557/

100. Don’t talk to strangers?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greut/502095764/

101. “Parentsare 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.”

102. What should be afraid of?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/3337404887/

103. Privacy
dead or alive?

104. Privacy is about
controlling how
the information
flows
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45177065@N00/3778930204/

107. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22196205@N03/3656624938/
Privacy and Anonymity are
not Synonymous

108. danah boyd’s 5
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33198938@N00/3353221215/

109. PII vs. PEI
Personal Identifiable Information Personal Embarrassing Information

110. PRIVATE by DEFAULT
PUBLIC with EFFORT

112. Weighing the benefits
over the costs

113. That wasn’t intended for you!

114. I S a w Tw i l i g h t

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

117. 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.

119. “there is something
profoundly selfish
in not sharing.”
Jeff Jarvis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41716177@N00/4309027037/

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

121. Network Literacy
Understanding New Media

123. social networks
• redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence, privacy,
publics, geography.
• enable learning,
communication, sharing,
collaboration, community.
• networks form around
shared interests &
objects.

126. locks

127. parents as pirates

129. connected reality

134. “Understanding how networks
work is one of the most important
literacies of the 21st century.”
(Rheingold, 2010)

135. the utility of networks

136. (re)shaping collaboration

139. 1. coding competence
(the ability to decode texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

143. 2. semantic competence
(the ability to make meaning)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

148. 3. pragmatic competence
(functional literacy)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

150. Professional Identities

151. 4. critical competence
(ability to select, analyze & participate in texts)
(Adapted from Four Resources Model,
Freebody & Luke, 1990)

155. Reputation Management
Controlling your Identity

156. Who’s managing your stuff?

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

158. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergiopics/1306083834/
You can’t
NOT
play

159. You
http://www.flickr.com/photos/siutou_amy/2306794554/

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

161. Google’s not your only problem

162. Advocacy

164. http://www.google.com/profiles

165. What do other’s say
about you?
Image: ilustra-respondendo
http://flickr.com/photos/felipearte/44808639/

167. Owing a domain name is
about claiming your piece
of the internet. You’re no
longer renting, you’re a
home owner.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/

168. http://kylewebb.ca/

169. Is your Identity worth $10?

170. When does your
digital identity/profile
/
49956
N04/46071
8043 300@
m/ph otos/4
ww.fl ickr.co
w
http://
become a
marketable asset?

171. Your Students
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64121897@N00/62716956/

172. drunken pirate

173. “I want my
kids to be
found.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86592731@N00/175990728/

175. Your Institution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/64121897@N00/62716956/

177. You don’t control the message now

178. You probably never did
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larryontheprairie/4534921049/

179. Allow Constituents a Voice

180. Tell Stories

181. Give them places to Share

182. Let them share

183. LB RA ND
P ER SO NA

184. Losing the Ability to Forget
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38392802@N07/4669189625/

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

187. Digital Activism
Beyond the Ineffectual

189. The Web as Random Acts of Kindness
(TED Talk)
@zittrain
• Technical infrastructure of
the web.
• Wikipedia’s content & form
• ‘Hitchhiking’ exists through
Internet-facilitated kindness,
collaboration, & sharing.

193. The Machine is (Changing) Us
(Personal Democracy Forum)
• 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”.
@mwesch

194. Heroes for our Mediated Culture

202. “... 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)