Digital and Media Literacy
Posts related to society, technology, and our ability to consume and create digital compositions.
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Google Images doesn’t own images
Google Images is an excellent tool for searching and finding images from across the Internet. Unfortunately for students, the image’s appearance in a search does not authorize its use. I recently wrote an article titled Photos and Copyright Law in which I advocated for appropriate citation in student projects. One issue with citation has emerged…
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Photos and Copyright Law
If you find a photo and place it on your website, in a paper, or use it as an image in some other document, be careful. More likely than not, you are in violation of copyright law. My rule for photos: if you didn’t shoot it with your own camera, draw it with your own hand,…
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Citing Sources Online
When we write papers or speak publicly, we usually understand how to give credit to others. However, sensibilities about plagiarism and intellectual property often disappear when writing online. But, citing sources can be easier and more productive in online media than it would be in any other form. Here are five strategies for citing sources…
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Wikileaks: Secrecy, Technology and the Right to Know
“It’s always a daunting time at a newspaper when you decide to publish something the government says you shouldn’t publish,” says Scott Shane, lead national security reporter for the New York Times. “One of the really interesting, unknown facts is that all of the fallout about WikiLeaks was from about 2% of the documents in…
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What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (Gee, 2007)
What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy (Gee, 2007) James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy is less about video games and more about a theoretical approach to education, says Kristen Odell. The concept behind the book is a discussion about learning, arguing that…
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Digital Privacy and Digital Literacy
Knowledge of the role of Internet surveillance could play a role in our privacy behaviors online. For the typical Internet user, survelliance knowledge could include Internet tracking, marketing research, and demographic-driven advertising, among others. Yet, many typical Internet users lack basic knowledge of the surveillance practices that occur on sites they visit regularly. Some of…
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Plagiarism rears its digital head
Plagiarism is not just a student issue. It’s a people issue. And plagiarism becomes an even broader issue in the realm of digital media. Web Shames Magazine for Plagiarizing Blogger’s Article – http://on.mash.to/bYCufl — Mashable (@mashable) November 6, 2010 (tweet embedded using the new WordPress version of “Blackbird Pie”) Plagiarism occurs when someone uses another’s…
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Defining Digital and Media Literacy
It’s not your daddy’s literacy. Discussions of media literacy in America have traversed the media landscape from newspapers and advertising, to television, radio and film, to Internet-based media. With new focus turning to literacy in digital realms, some, like Knight Foundation and Queens University of Charlotte, are examining media literacy in its increasingly digital form.…
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Speaking and Learning in Tweets: a field guide to Twitter language
This presentation is intended for Twitter beginners, to explore the language used to link information in Twitter. I delivered it as part of the Knight School of Communication’s digital media learning workshops series offered at Queens University of Charlotte and shared it here for interested others. As always, your comments and feedback on this presentation…
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How and Why I Teach Social Media.
What are the benefits of the Twitters? Why should I care about social media? Who cares what I had for breakfast? These questions slide off the tongues of my colleagues, friends and neighbors when they learn that I teach courses in social media. I usually answer with an explanation of my own perceived benefits, but…
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