scholarly journals Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What’s the Difference?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luci Pangrazio ◽  
Julian Sefton-Green

Using digital media is complicated. Invasions of privacy, increasing dataveillance, digital-by-default commercial and civic transactions and the erosion of the democratic sphere are just some of the complex issues in modern societies. Existential questions associated with digital life challenge the individual to come to terms with who they are, as well as their social interactions and realities. In this article, we identify three contemporary normative responses to these complex issues –digital citizenship, digital rights and digital literacy. These three terms capture epistemological and ontological frames that theorise and enact (both in policy and everyday social interactions) how individuals learn to live in digitally mediated societies. The article explores the effectiveness of each in addressing the philosophical, ethical and practical issues raised by datafication, and the limitations of human agency as an overarching goal within these responses. We examine how each response addresses challenges in policy, everyday social life and political rhetoric, tracing the fluctuating uses of these terms and their address to different stakeholders. The article concludes with a series of conceptual and practical ‘action points’ that might optimise these responses to the benefit of the individual and society.

Computers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Valentina Milenkova ◽  
Vladislava Lendzhova

In the present day, Internet technology and social media totally dominate as a means of communication. The media and social interaction have a two-sided nature, as the important role is not only those of the media messages to the users, but of the users to the media, too. This article aims to present the dominant importance of digital media, digital literacy transformation into a precondition for social inclusion, and an indicator of professional competence and social skills. Digital citizenship is a term that reflects the level of training and competencies, with a view to active participation in social, professional, and civic life. The article is based on two methods: Focus groups that were conducted in late 2019, which includes: Students, young mothers, pensioners, and unemployed. The second method used is the documents analysis—publications, materials, and quantitative results of research on social reactions to digital media as a source of information in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The combination of materials and data that have been analyzed are related to the period of the lockdown between March 2020 and December 2020. In the time of global social crises and confrontations, digital media literacy has turned out to be of critical importance for the normal course of social events and their interpretations. In this regard, digital citizenship contributes to social understanding and control, as well as the individual practices in the global pandemic trajectory.


Author(s):  
Banita Lal ◽  
Yogesh K. Dwivedi ◽  
Markus Haag

AbstractWith the overnight growth in Working from Home (WFH) owing to the pandemic, organisations and their employees have had to adapt work-related processes and practices quickly with a huge reliance upon technology. Everyday activities such as social interactions with colleagues must therefore be reconsidered. Existing literature emphasises that social interactions, typically conducted in the traditional workplace, are a fundamental feature of social life and shape employees’ experience of work. This experience is completely removed for many employees due to the pandemic and, presently, there is a lack of knowledge on how individuals maintain social interactions with colleagues via technology when working from home. Given that a lack of social interaction can lead to social isolation and other negative repercussions, this study aims to contribute to the existing body of literature on remote working by highlighting employees’ experiences and practices around social interaction with colleagues. This study takes an interpretivist and qualitative approach utilising the diary-keeping technique to collect data from twenty-nine individuals who had started to work from home on a full-time basis as a result of the pandemic. The study explores how participants conduct social interactions using different technology platforms and how such interactions are embedded in their working lives. The findings highlight the difficulty in maintaining social interactions via technology such as the absence of cues and emotional intelligence, as well as highlighting numerous other factors such as job uncertainty, increased workloads and heavy usage of technology that affect their work lives. The study also highlights that despite the negative experiences relating to working from home, some participants are apprehensive about returning to work in the traditional office place where social interactions may actually be perceived as a distraction. The main contribution of our study is to highlight that a variety of perceptions and feelings of how work has changed via an increased use of digital media while working from home exists and that organisations need to be aware of these differences so that they can be managed in a contextualised manner, thus increasing both the efficiency and effectiveness of working from home.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kathryn Cyrus

Purpose Overview of coaching for recovery. The paper aims to show an overview of work that was carried out over 11 years with groups of mental health and physical staff. As the facilitator who had run this course for the duration in Nottingham, this was an excellent opportunity to be at the forefront of a brand new project. Design/methodology/approach The introduction of the skills are taught over two consecutive days followed by a further day a month later. The idea of coaching is to be enabled to find the answers in themselves by the use of powerful questions and using the technique of the grow model, combined with practice enables the brain to come up with its own answers. Using rapport and enabling effective communication to deliver the outcome. Findings Evidence from staff/clients and the purpose of the paper shows that when you step back it allows the individual patients/staff to allow the brain to process to create to come up with their solutions, which then helps them to buy into the process and creates ownership. Research limitations/implications The evidence suggests that the approach that was there prior to the course was very much a clinical approach to working with clients and treating the person, administering medication and not focussing on the inner person or personal recovery. The staff review has shown that in the clinical context change is happening from the inside out. Practical implications “Helps change culture”; “change of work practice”; “it changed staff focus – not so prescriptive”; “powerful questions let clients come to their own conclusions”; “coaching gives the ability to find half full. Helps to offer reassurance and to find one spark of hope”. Social implications This has shown that the approach is now person-centred/holistic. This has been the “difference that has made the difference”. When this paper looks at the issues from a different angle in this case a coaching approach, applying technique, knowledge and powerful questions the results have changed. The same clients, same staff and same problems but with the use of a different approach, there is the evidence of a different outcome, which speaks for itself. The coaching method is more facilitative, therefore it illicit’s a different response, and therefore, result. Originality/value The results/evidence starts with the individual attending and their commitment to the process over the two-day course. Then going away for the four weeks/six for managers and a commitment again to practice. Returning to share the impact if any with the group. This, in turn, helps to inspire and gain motivation from the feedback to go back to work invigorated to keep going.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Alan Ad'ha Firdaus ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

The scientific article contains a survey on digital media literacy of Universitas Airlangga students which was conducted with the aim of knowing the understanding of students from all universities in Indonesia regarding digital media, and to find out how high the individual level of competence of students in Indonesia is in digital media literacy, as well as to find out the factors what influences the level of competent individuals regarding digital media literacy. This research was conducted using a descriptive survey method and using descriptive statistical data analysis techniques to analyze the research data. The results of the study revealed that: 1). The understanding of students in Indonesia regarding digital literacy is in the medium category, 2). The competent individual level of Indonesian students in digital media literacy is at the basic level, 3). The factors that influence the level of competent individuals related to digital media literacy are mainly family environmental factors.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Hui Chen ◽  
Chao-Lung Liu ◽  
Bryant Pui Hung Hui ◽  
Ming-Lun Chung

The purpose of this article is to examine the level of digital equity and political participation in Taiwan. In this study, we argue that high digital literacy and active civic participation facilitate the formation of sustainable digital citizenship. We review the development of digital education policy in Taiwan since the 1990s. Based on the nationwide survey dataset prepared by Taiwan’s National Development Council in 2018, we examine the relations between digital literacy, digital social life, the digitalized acquisition of government information, and the political participation of digital citizens. We adopt a structural equation modeling approach and perform the multi-group analysis to validate our proposed model of digital equal opportunity. The results show that there are significantly positive relations between the four digital latent variables, but no statistically significant differences between interviewees with high and low education backgrounds in the relations with these variables. In addition, our findings reveal that the digital social life of digital citizens indirectly affects their political participation through their digitalized acquisition of government information. This paper also discusses the implications of digital education policy and the formation of sustainable digital citizenship.


Africa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 462-478
Author(s):  
Rijk van Dijk

AbstractWhereas Michael Lambek situates the exploration of the significance of ‘ordinary ethics’ in the everyday as the study of ‘the ethical in the conjunction or movement between explicit local pronouncements and implicit local practices and circumstances’, this article takes the opposite view by drawing attention to special events that appear to engage – or provide space for – extraordinary ethics. Special events and their extraordinary ethics bring into relief the implicitness of the ordinary in everyday ethics. Weddings in Botswana are moments in the social life of the individual, the family and the community that produce such event ethics. On one level, the event ethics relate to the execution of these highly stylized weddings in terms of concerns about their performance and marital arrangements. On another level, the event ethics can have tacit dimensions that belong to the special nature of the occasion. This article argues not only that ‘ordinary ethics’ may be privileged through the study of what is tacit in social interactions, but that ‘event ethics’ also demonstrate the importance of the tacit.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Susana Beatriz Scavino ◽  
Vera Maria Candau

O artigo parte da constatação de que a pandemia do COVID-19 escancarou as enormes desigualdades presentes na sociedade brasileira e as inter-relações entre elas. Entende os Direitos Humanos como processos históricos, sempre em construção, na busca permanente de condições de vida justas e dignas para todos. Nesse contexto, situam as questões relativas ao direito à educação. Tem presente os esforços e lutas de diversos grupos sociais, particularmente, a partir da Constituição Brasileira de 1988, para a afirmação desse direito. Assinala que houve conquistas relevantes, mas que ainda temos muito que caminhar para que todos possam ter uma educação de qualidade. Tendo presente o contexto atual e a implantação do “ensino remoto emergencial”, por parte de muitos sistemas municipais e estaduais de educação, afirma que emerge com força a necessidade de garantir o direito de todos ao acesso às tecnologias de comunicação e informação, especialmente as mídias digitais, como um componente fundamental do direito à educação. No entanto, é importante não se ter uma visão meramente instrumental dessa questão, muitas vezes, reduzida à utilização de pacotes oferecidos por diversas organizações numa perspectiva mercadológica. É fundamental levar em consideração que a cultura digital está cada vez mais presente em diferentes âmbitos da vida social e afeta diversas dimensões de nossas vidas, individual e coletivamente, e nos desafia a entender, como educadores, formas de aprendizagem múltiplas, suas possibilidades e limites. O texto defende a posição de que, além da universalização do acesso, é fundamental promover processos de letramento digital de forma contínua, processual e sistemática, tanto orientada aos alunos e alunas, como aos professores e professoras, que permitam afirmar o direito à conectividade numa perspectiva educacional reflexiva, crítica e criativa.   Inequality, connectivity, and the right to education in times of pandemic The starting point of this article is the observation that the COVID-19 pandemic has wide opened the enormous inequalities into Brazilian society and their interrelationships. We understand the Human Rights as historical processes always under construction and in permanent search for fair and decent living conditions for everyone. In this context, we detach the issues related to the right to education. We consider the efforts and struggles of various social groups, particularly since the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, to affirm this right. There have been relevant achievements, but there is still a long way to guarantee quality education to everyone. In the current context of the “emergency remote education”  implementation by many municipal and state education systems, we affirm that guarantee everyone’s right to communication and information technologies,  especially digital media, is strongly needed as a fundamental component of the right to education. However, it is important not to take a merely instrumental view of this issue, often reduced to the use of packages offered by various organizations from a market perspective. It is fundamental considering that the digital culture is increasingly present in different spheres of social life and affects different dimensions of our lives, individually and collectively. It also challenges us, as educators, to understand multiple forms of learning, their possibilities, and limits. The text defends that, beyond the access universalization, it is important to promote digital literacy processes in a continuous, procedural, and systematic way. Both must be oriented to students and teachers to affirm the right to connectivity in a reflexive, critical, and creative educational perspective. Keywords: Right to education. Right to connectivity. Digital culture. Digital literacy.  


1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rex Taylor ◽  
Graeme Ford

ABSTRACTThis paper is concerned with the nature, usage and potential of the concept of lifestyle. It concentrates on usage in social gerontology and specifically on the way in which it has been used by three teams of American researchers. Its overall aim is to discover guidelines for establishing the lifestyle concept on a sounder methodological footing.The paper begins with a discussion of diversity within the elderly population and it identifies the need for a systematic conceptual scheme for describing the social life of the individual. It examines the relationship between lifestyle and social class and concludes that they represent complementary rather than competing approaches. The paper goes on to explore three definitions of life-style - as structure, content and meaning - and compares and contrasts these three alternative approaches. The difference between ‘nominal’ and ‘real’ definitions is discussed and the paper ends with a summary account of the way in which the concept has been operationalized in a continuing British study.


1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Maurício Domingues

Social memory and social creativity are the two processes whereby social systems are reproduced and change without teleology. Social memory, with its ideal features but also its material embodiments, must have the collective dimension brought out, without detriment to the shifting and personalized ways with which individuals deal with it. It provides the patterns for the structuring of social life in the hermeneutic-cognitive and in the material, as well as in the space-time dimension. Social creativity is responsible for the introduction of innovations in daily life and in history. Creativity is to a great extent rooted in the fluid unconscious of individuals, but demands rational thinking to achieve greater impact upon social life. Immersed in undetermined social interactions, individual action is mediated by variably (de)centred collective subjectivities that possess a specific property, namely collective causality. Social creativity thus develops in both the individual and the collective dimensions.


Author(s):  
Yavuz Kömeçoğlu ◽  
Zumrut Muftuoglu ◽  
Can Umay ◽  
Aysin Tasdelen ◽  
Sebnem Ozdemir

A digital literate person is identified as competent person in the three dimensions of digital technologies, defined as technical, cognitive, and socio-emotional. In particular, under the technical dimension, the person is able to use the tools of the digital world in a competent way. Considering this definition given in technical dimension, it is seen that the individual being a good digital literate is also related to the tools of the digital world. However, no matter how good a digital literate can be, she/he is suffocated in the information if there is no tool to help in accessing information in a certain area, because of the size of digital world. The purpose of this study is to strengthen the technical dimension of digital literacy by developing a tool for reaching the correct visuals by using deep learning techniques. In order to fulfill that purpose, transferring cultural heritage to the next generation by avoiding disturbing visuals, was focused.


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