Resources to help us all be better digital citizens

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 23 Feb 2022.

As we consume the troubling news of the past few weeks, we have all seen that there are so many issues we’re dealing with in our digital world that have real life impacts: the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories, the proliferation of racist stereotypes, online hate and prejudice, and the attacks on journalists and freedom of the press.

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Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Human Rights, Internet & Mobile, Media Literacy 101, Online Ethics

The big digital paradoxes of the pandemic

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 14 Dec 2021.

Guest post by Dr. Chris Dornan, former Associate Professor Carleton University School of Journalism & Communication

This is a transcript of a presentation by Dr. Chris Dornan on October 28, 2021 as part of MediaSmarts Presents The Walrus Talks: Our Digital Lives (a Media Literacy Week event).

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Authenticating Information, Digital Citizenship, Human Rights, Journalism & News, Online Ethics

Community Engagement on World Day of Social Justice

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 13 Feb 2017.

Developing the three-part MediaSmarts workshop series Creating Digital Content for Community Engagement changed my life. This might sound far-fetched, but I took the time to really explore what political and civic engagement looks like both on and offline, why every democratic society needs this, and how to create a powerful, effective and well-crafted media message that can help change the world for the betterment of everyone. I learned a lot about what it means to be “engaged” in our society, and how crucial this is for the success of all. 

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Digital Citizenship, Human Rights, Online Ethics

Media and morality

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 18 Jan 2013.

The new movie Zero Dark Thirty, which tells the story of the tracking and eventual killing of Osama Bin Laden, has received several Oscar nominations (including Best Picture), but it’s attracting another kind of attention as well: several writers, including Jane Meyer at The New Yorker and Peter Maass at The Atlantic, have accused it of condoning or even glorifying the use of torture by US intelligence agencies.

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Human Rights, Movies, Television, Violence

Computers, metaphors of materiality, and everyday life

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 06 Sep 2011.

A recent case involving lawmakers who want to access data on the computer of a woman accused of engaging in a mortgage scam in Colorado has opened up a virtual Pandora’s box of legal questions: American courts are currently struggling with whether or not suspects can be forced to show authorities how to access their encrypted information and the repercussions of their ruling could affect Canadian law as well.

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