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English: Intro to College Writing: Digital Citizenship

Digital Literacy is the set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that empower us to learn, grow, create, and responsibly engage in the digital world.

How libraries support YOU developing digital literacy:

In addition to learning how to mindfully access and critically analyze research information (see HOWLER tutorials), libraries provide access to resources that support your growth and participation in a digital world when you leave school. A few examples:

Information Literacy.

Content Creation.

Information Access & Ethics.

Social Media & Identities.

Related books/ebooks in our collection:

Book cover: Technology's child
Book Cover: Race and Digital Media
Book Cover:  More than a glitch : confronting race, gender, and ability bias in tech

Digital Citizenship in the news

Other Outstanding Online Resources

Games and Interactivity for Digital Citizenship

Why you should care 

We are all interconnected. Digital Technology can both clarify and confuse our purpose and connections as we simultaneously consume and create data and information online. 

image by Mark Perkins, 2024

To understand the evolving digital world and our place in it, we must engage information and knowledge mindfully, critically, ethically, and collaboratively. 

We need to understand the ways that digital technologies operate and evolve and how we as individuals and societies grow and change along with them.

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Civic Engagement

Transform knowledge into informed impact!

Topic Highlight: Civic Engagement.
Civic Engagement refers to "individual or collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern, including individual voluntarism, organizational involvement and advocacy." Digital civic engagement takes this action into our active online spaces.

“Definition of Civic Engagement” American Psychological Association, www.apa.org/education/undergrad/civic-engagement.

Empowering People through Data Privacy

Why You Should Care

Why you should care 

 

We are all interconnected. Digital Technology can both clarify and confuse our connections as we simultaneously consume and create data and information online. 

Digital Citizenship is made up of nine interrelated elements: Digital Access, Digital Commerce, Digital Communication, Digital Literacy, Digital Etiquette, Digital Law, Digital Rights and Responsibilities, Digital Health and Wellness, and Digital Security. 

To understand the world and our place in it, we must engage information and knowledge critically and collaboratively. 

This includes grasping concepts of privacy, intellectual property, metaliteracy, and civic engagement.