Legal, Ethical, and Societal
Issues in Media
Information
Joemar D. Sajona, RL. MLIS
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Digital Citizenship
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How do students learn today?
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“I can communicate with any
person, at any time, in any place,”
“I can access lots of information.”
(Source: IITE Brief Policy, 2011)
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What is Digital Citizenship?
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What is Digital Citizenship
An acceptance and upholding of the norms of
appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to the
use of digital technologies. This involves using digital
technologies effectively and not misusing them to
disadvantage others.
Source: Australian Curriculum: Technologies glossary
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What is Digital Citizenship
Norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with
regard to technology use. (Ribble, 2011)
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Our daily life is becoming ever more
digitalized, and our children interact
more and more with content, each
other and social communities online.
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Understanding the why of
digital citizenship
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Instructions for use
Technology
Gap
Digital
Footprint
Digital Hyper
Activity
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Technology Gap
Students live by a totally different set of
paradigms.
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Digital Footprint
Your online persona is just as important to your social
reputation as your persona in the physical world.
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Digital Hyperactivity
Used to a multiplicity of communication modes, they are
permanently connected, even over connected.
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The essentials of digital
responsibility
(Accdg. To: Book Widgets, 2018)
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Privacy protection Oversharing
This involves the use of Younger people are naturally
more vulnerable and prone to
strong passwords and self-revealing and oversharing
the avoidance of online. A good course on
interaction with digital citizenship should teach
them what information it is
strangers online.
appropriate to share online,
and with whom.
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Cyberbullying Positive footprints in
As a growing the digital age
phenomenon in With the explosion of social
media, it’s important to teach
schools, this new form our students the importance of
of bullying can best be crafting a positive online
combatted by teaching persona and show them how
to do it through our digital
our students how to
citizenship programs.
effectively deal with it.
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Respectful Evaluating online
communication online information/website
and voicing of one’s credibility
own opinion Digital citizenship literacy
enables digital citizens to
Netiquette is an
correctly curate informational
important part of being a content they find online and
digital citizen and should correctly evaluate the credibility
be taught to our students of the websites from which they
from a young age. obtain their information.
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Copyright and Consequences of non-
plagiarism issues abiding by digital rules
This involves teaching our With the growth of legislation on
students not to take the work digital crimes, our students
of others and pass it off as should be taught where the line is
their own. Showing them how on many issues involving digital
to credit their sources will conduct so that they can
teach them to better uphold intimately understand the
digital ethics by respecting the consequences of breaking these
original work of others. digital rules.
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THANKS!
Any questions?
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