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Digital Citizenship – Identity, Footprint, & Social Activism
Papers: Reputation Management and Social MediaUnderstanding your Digital Identity
Understanding your digital Identity
• Digital Identity- Describe the persona a person projects across the internet. • This is how other people might view you on the internet• These days most people are creating their own online appearance• How well is your online presence? • How would you feel if I google you now…
• Why did I show you this?• How does it feel?• Would your future students, parents, co workers and employer
Google you?• What would you want people to see when they look for you online?• Do you have Facebook?• Do you use it with fellow classmates?• Do you think this could be used in your classroom?
Digital Identity
• Jenkins (2004) claims that “…all human identities are by definition social identities…” if this is true is Digital Identity not the same as social identity? • Digital identity represent yourself as a person online.• Are you the master of your own digital identity? • No, other people have an input towards your identity. • We comment on one another's blogs, would we still comment the
same way if we didn’t know one another?
• This is me Project – urge people to take control of their own digital identity.• Allow users to create recourses and allow them to understand their
own digital identity • Some people not all, project themselves they way they want to be
seen by others• Other embrace the open approach to share information freely
• Do you……• Delete unwanted images?• Set privacy settings?• Untag photos?..... Why?
• Are you a digital Citizen?• If you are active on the internet or online you are a digital citizen.• What would the attributes of a digital citizen be? • _____________________• _____________________• _____________________• _____________________• _____________________
Why would your digital footprint be that important?
Digital footprint
• Just like a foot print in sand, it is the digital foot print you leave behind with every step you take in the digital world• What advice would you give to a student now if they asked about how
to control their digital foot print?• What is your digital footprint like?
Thank you (Refrences)
• Bennett, W. L. (2008). Changing citizenship in the digital age. Civic life online: Learning how digital media can engage youth, 1, 1-24.• Greenhow, C., & Robelia, B. (2009). Informal learning and identity
formation in online social networks. Learning, Media and Technology, 34(2), 119-140.• Ribble, M. S., Bailey, G. D., & Ross, T. W. (2004). Digital Citizenship:
Addressing Appropriate Technology Behavior. Learning & Leading with Technology, 32(1), 6.
