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UNT CECS 5200 Digital Literacy
Digital Citizen Ethics
Digital citizens use the technology expressing and communicating ideas while applying various ethical behaviors within the online community. Digital communication uses visual, contextual, audio, or video base elements influence the online community. Digital citizens use several resource sites and gather appropriate licensing for each medium.
Examples of Online Digital Collection Resources
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Library of Congress categorizes digital collections for public usage.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Image Library offers an open source digital collection discussing health.
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Creativecommons.org (CC) supplies various licenses that allow another end user to mix, match, or modify original works and requires the author to cite the source. CC licenses range from images, music, video, and illustrations.
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NASA offers many downloadable resources for educational use and personal web pages.
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World Intellectual Property Organization explains and defines the types of intellectual property such as copyright, trademarks, patents etc…
Digital Citizen Online Engagement
Digital citizen’s engage ethically with the online community using online social networking, post, blogging, and other digital communications. For example, digital citizens engagements do not participate in any cyberbullying post, engagement, or encourage digital cyberbullying communication activities. Instead, a digital citizen builds a community relationship, applies ethical behaviors, and support the community.
Online Cyberbully Resources
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Stopbullying.gov discuss the differences between physical bullying behaviors and cyberbullying behaviors.
Digital Citizens Ethics and Behaviors
Digital Literacy
Carneiro & Jean (2012) explains, "Literacy is not just a crucial skill for the individual, but is a vital component of economic prosperity and social well-being. At the national level, improved literacy increases the stock of human capital, enhances the innovative capacity of the economy and helps to disseminate new technologies" (p. 476).
Cyberbulling
Dehue (2012) defines cyberbulling as, "antisocial behaviour, such as sending hate mail or serious threats, spreadingrumours, or carrying out sexual and racial harassment. When such behaviour occurs morethan once, in the literature, it is referred to as cyberbullying" (p. 1).
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