LTEC 642: Week 3
September 15, 2014
Privacy and Digital Literacy
A fitting topic: Privacy and Digital Literacy.
What exactly is digital literacy? What most of us
discovered, if we did not already know, is that digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate,
utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the
Internet.
For me, Digital literacy is an
important topic because technology is changing rapidly, more rapidly than
society is. These advances make it possible for us to search online databases,
text family, friends, colleagues, and to stream media. It also presents urgent challenges
to the social norms as well as legal frameworks that structure our society. As many of
us might have experienced, the rules of appropriate behavior in these digital
contexts might be unknown or unknowable. The notions such as copyright, academic
integrity in education, and privacy are now difficult to define, as their
meanings are in a seeming state of flux.
Aloha Faith,
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I completely agree with your post on Digital Literacy. It is mind boggling to read some of the research/number of people that aren't very interested in their privacy settings especially in the younger demographic.
I think that some of the points you made about the copyright and infrigment being harder to define is an interesting concept, especially in my field of music and the arts. For centuries, composers have borrowed from one another in terms of idea and pieces. To see and compare the past with the present situation is eye opening. I think you made some good points about how these new technologies are affecting privacy and making it an even bigger concern in our modern day society.
Thanks for sharing!
Mahalo,
-James