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Privacy, the NSA and Web Literacies
I work for Mozilla. We were one of 86 civil liberties groups that signed an open letter demanding swift access from Congress in the light of recent revelations around NSA surveillance. The website StopWatching.Us has seen...
Category: Digital CitizenshipEnacting Social Change in a Digital Age: An International Case Study
In recent years, international development organizations have started incorporating digital media programming in an effort to merge storytelling and popular media into civic engagement and to bring young people together across national...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship, EquityThe Role of Social Media, Citizen Media in Latest Anti-Government Unrest in Brazil
Like Turkey, Brazil is seeing a wave of anti-government protests it hasn’t seen in years. Thousands of residents in several cities, including Brazil’s two biggest cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro,...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipNetworked Politics from Tahrir to Taksim: Is there a Social Media-fueled Protest Style?
Protesters from one of the world’s richest countries, one of the world’s oldest autocracies, and one of the world’s rising developing countries walk into ... a public space, use Twitter extensively, and...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipThoughts on Pew’s Latest Report on Teens: Notable Findings on Race and Privacy
Yesterday, Pew Internet and American Life Project (in collaboration with Berkman) unveiled a brilliant report about “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy.” As a researcher who’s been in the trenches on these topics for a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, EquityHow to Use Wikipedia as a Teaching Tool: Adrianne Wadewitz
Wikipedia is often not thought of as a platform for pedagogy since so many teachers explicitly tell their students to steer clear of the site as a source of information. However, as a...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Digital LearningWhat Comes After Election Monitoring? Citizen Monitoring of Infrastructure
I was recently in Senegal at a board meeting for Open Society Foundation, meeting organizations the foundation supports around the continent. Two projects in particular stuck in my mind. One is Y’en...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital CitizenshipTeachers, Youth, and Social Media: Experiments
While young people are often adept at navigating networked spaces for social purposes in their everyday lives, it is less clear what role schools and teachers should play in that process. In...
Categories: Digital Citizenship, Educational PracticeWriting for Interaction, Part 2
Media and literary theorists have argued for some time that reading is an inherently interactive process. To give only one example, the history of reading is mostly a history of bodily performance:...
Category: Digital CitizenshipInterview: T. Mills Kelly on ‘Lying About the Past’ and Media Literacy
Professor T. Mills Kelly is a historian at George Mason University in Washington, D.C. In 2012, he and students of his course, 'Lying About the Past', became headline news after it was...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIn Praise of Peer to Peer Connectivity: Technosociologist Zeynep Tufekci
Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist who uses, as well as studies, social media, offers a refreshingly rigorous and empirically-scaffolded perspective amid the frenzy of armchair social science regarding the impact of Twitter, Facebook,...
Category: Digital CitizenshipWe are all quite familiar with interactive writing. Business writing is a nearly constant stream of emails and memos that reply to and reference other texts. Teachers and students engage in a...
Category: Digital CitizenshipNavigating Privacy and User Rights Issues in an “I Agree” Era
Last fall, a New York man rented out his apartment bedroom through Airbnb, a popular website for short-term stays. Unbeknownst to him, he was breaking the law. When he returned to his...
Category: Digital CitizenshipIs Facebook Destroying the American College Experience?
Sitting with a group of graduating high school seniors last summer, the conversation turned to college roommates. Although headed off to different schools, they had a similar experience of learning their roommate...
Category: Digital CitizenshipDML Conference 2013: Democratic Futures
President Barack Obama recently ended his post-State of the Union tour in his adopted hometown of Chicago. Roughly two weeks earlier a group of young Chicago residents started an online petition at...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Digital Citizenship
