scholarly journals Social Bots and Fake News as (not) seen from the Viewpoint of Digital Education Frameworks

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (Occasional Papers) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Janetzko
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Eu

Over recent years, international organisations like the EU and UNESCO have set up a number of proposals, models and frameworks that seek (i) to map and to conceptualize digital literacy and related concepts, e. g. information, digital or media literacy, digital competence, digital skills and (ii) to formulate policies and recommendations based on the conceptualizations developed. The resulting frameworks, such as Digital Competence (DigComp) developed by the EU, or Media and Information Literacy (MIL) developed by UNESCO, have a strong formative power on a global scale. Affected are policies, laws, regulations, research activities, and academic disciplines like media pedagogy and mindsets. Do these frameworks consider the effects of disruptive attempts by digital media to intervene in public debates e. g. social bots, fake news and other manifestations of biased or false information online? Do they offer avenues for reflection and action to address them? Guided by these questions, this paper studies the flagship frameworks on digital education of the EU and UNESCO, DigComp and MIL. It finds biases in both frameworks. To different degrees, both tend to overemphasize the practical and instrumental use of digital literacy.

scholarly journals Digital Media Literacy, School and Contemporary Parenting

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Lana Ciboci ◽  
Danijel Labaš
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Parental Mediation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Media ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Digital Media Literacy

Today’s societies live in a world where the media construct reality, which also affects each individual media user. Children and their parents spend most of their time with digital media and contents. Therefore, researchers emphasize the importance of digital literacy of media users. They analyse new phenomena, challenges and risks associated with the anthropological, cognitive and social development of children and young people. An important role in media and digital education is played not only by teachers and schools, but also by parents and family. The aim of this paper is to present and analyse the theoretical approaches to digital media literacy, so-called digital parenting, and to interpret the results of the latest research in Croatia devoted to the digital habits of parents, their attitudes towards parental mediation strategies as well as to their satisfaction with the programmes of media literacy in the education system.

scholarly journals Digital Literacy Learning In Higher Education Through Digital Storytelling Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banny S. K. Chan ◽  
Daniel Churchill ◽  
Thomas K. F. Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Purposive Sample

It is necessary to develop digital literacy skills with which students can communicate and express their ideas effectively using digital media. The educational sectors around the world are beginning to incorporate digital literacy into the curriculum. Digital storytelling, one of the possible classroom activities, is an approach which may help engage and motivate students to learn digital literacy skills. To investigate this approach, the present small-scale study employs the methods including interviewing and analysing the artefacts of three students selected from a purposive sample on a multimedia course. The findings indicate that the three students have improved in terms of three aspects of digital literacy skills, namely, digital competence, digital usage and digital transformation regardless of their prior knowledge and levels of digital literacy. 

scholarly journals Using Digital Media in Civics Education Learning Subject to Develop Santri's Digital Literacy at the Age of Technology Disruption

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5C) ◽  
pp. 818-823
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Civics Education ◽  
Data Collection Technique

This research aims to describe the development strategies of students' (Santri) digital literacy skills in modern Islamic boarding schools through Civics Education Learning Community Education. Civics Education is a school subject that has a strategic role in shaping the young citizens' digital competence. The development of digital literacy in Santri discussed in this research is divided into two aspects, among others are the technology literacy and information literacy. This research is designed with qualitative research methods. The data collection technique applied purposive sampling. The research subjects were both students and teachers of Civics Education subject in Modern Islamic Boarding School. The data collection technique carried out by applying interview techniques, observation and document analysis. The data analysis techniques cover the data reduction, data presentation, conclusion, and verification. Before conducting this research regarding the Santri's digital literacy development strategies, researchers first explored santri's digital literacy skills. The results of this research indicated that, there is a digital divide phenomenon among the santri(s)' attitudes and pesantren with regard to current policies using technological advancements. Then, the development of digital literacy skills is identifiable from the learning and evaluation process. The development of digital literacy skills through the learning process of Civics Education carried out through using digital media. It effectively helps santri develop their skills using technology, in addition to developing santri(s') in processing information through digital media. The Santri's learning skills in using digital media using the Civics Education reflects common effective strategies in developing their skills in realizing information, searching, and using information

scholarly journals Defining Digital Literacy in the Age of Computational Propaganda and Hate Spin Politics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aqida Nuril Salma
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Political Events ◽  
False News ◽  
Free Flow Of Information ◽  
Flow Of Information

In this era, people’s lives are intertwined with the Internet and digital media although society might have to bear potential negative effects of these platforms. Free flow of information and the rise of hate speech, fake news and disinformation on the Internet have no doubt increased social polarization. Furthermore, a new phenomenon has arisen, which combines hate speech with indignation or offence-taking, and that is hate spin. Hate spin uses hate speech and fake news as a weapon to gain access to political power. Hate spin is considered to be one of the biggest threats to any democratic country, including Indonesia. A relatively young democracy and its reputation for religious moderatism and diversity, Indonesia has not been immune to the hoax epidemic plaguing societies around the world recently. Scholars assume that improving digital literacy is the best solution against hate spin in Indonesia. However, the current concept of digital literacy has been limited as merely a matter of technical skill. This paper offers an analysis on how to define the contemporary digital literacy concept that has moved beyond basic Internet access, and on how the technology works and is used by political elites with evidence of computational propaganda delivered through political bots, fake accounts and false news during recent political events in Indonesia.

scholarly journals Rethinking Fake News: Disinformation and Ideology during the time of COVID-19 Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 227797522110273
Author(s):  
Ronnie Das ◽  
Wasim Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Depth Interviews

Digital media and citizen journalism has escalated the infiltration of fake news attempting to create a post truth society (Lazer et al., 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge of misinformation leading to anti-mask, anti-vaccine and anti-5G protests on a global scale. Although the term ‘misinformation’ has been generalized in media and scholarly work, there is a fundamental difference between how misinformation impacts society, compared to more strategically planned disinformation attacks. In this study we explore the ideological constructs of citizens towards acceptance or rejection of disinformation during the heightened time of a COVID-19 global health crisis. Our analysis follows two specific disinformation propagandas evaluated through social network analysis of Twitter data in addition to qualitative insights generated from tweets and in-depth interviews.

scholarly journals Online Safety as a New Component of Digital Literacy for Young People

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Tomczyk ◽  
Ludvík Eger
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Technical Ability

Introduction. Digital literacy refers to the skills required to achieve digital competence, the confident and critical use of information and communication technology for le arning, leisure, communication and future work of young people. Digital competence has a dual nature. First of all, it is the technical ability to operate programs, pages, equipment. Secondly, it is also the ability to use digital media safely. Both perspectives are important in the educational perspective, i.e. media educat ion and socialisation. Materials and Methods. The paper presents the attempts to measure digital literacy in the area of threats resutling from using the new media in the group of upper-secondary school students (fourth educational cycle). The study was carried out using a diagnostic test with 18 questions. The research was conducted in the group of 1693 youths aged 15–21. The research was designed based on traditional methods of testing knowledge and skills. Results. The findings showed that the weakest digital literacy component was the copyright-related knowledge and the strongest area was online shopping and financial operations. All digital literacy components are interrelated. The improvement in one area leads to the development of other digital literacy elements. Despite this correlation, digital literacy is a heterogeneous concept. There are also differences regarding certain digital literacy components, determined by gender – girls obtained higher test results in terms of the soft competencies whereas boys were better with the technical aspects of digital literacy. Based on the cluster analysis, we noticed that 41.41% of the students obtained good and very good results from the competence test. More than half of the students require further education in most of the analysed areas. Discussion and Conclusion. For educational decision-makers, the findings highlight the importance of designing training programs aimed at developing students’ digital literacies, with a special focus on new topics as sexting, piracy and cyberbullying.

scholarly journals Fake or for real? A fake news workshop

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Katherine Hanz ◽  
Emily Sarah Kingsland
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Fake News ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Assessment Skills

Purpose The purpose of this paper seeks to provide an in-depth overview of a series of fake news information literacy library workshops, which were offered 19 times over the course of 2 years. It examines the results of a fake news game, which was played with a wide variety of audiences. Design/methodology/approach This case study examines workshops offered by two librarians at [name of institution], a major research institution in [city], [country]. It describes the workshops in detail and demonstrates how others may adopt this model. Findings The authors found that while high school students proved to be the most adept at recognizing fake news, the literature suggests that mere exposure to digital media is not sufficient in preparing Generation Z in their digital literacy critical assessment skills. Practical implications Library and information professionals are provided with the tools to adapt this workshop to suit the needs of their respective users. Originality/value This paper examines how a workshop can be adapted to seven unique audiences, spanning from high school students to university alumni. It incorporates the Association of College and Research Libraries framework and the latest literature into informing its practice.

scholarly journals Digital Media as COVID-19 Disaster Information Literacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-123
Author(s):  
Puji Lestari ◽  
Titik Kusmantini ◽  
Yuli Chandrasari ◽  
Devi Wening Astari
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Literacy Curriculum ◽  
Emergency Situations

Information about COVID-19 in digital media circulating must be confirmed because there are many fake news (hoaxes). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the digital literacy curriculum of Tular Nalar Internet and Disaster Preparedness in order to reduce hoaxes among PKK RW 69 women in Perum MGA Yogyakarta. This study uses an evaluation method oriented to the program's objectives that apply Tyler's model. Evaluation is carried out in the following steps: 1) Establishing program objectives; 2) Classifying objectives; 3) Identify structured objectives; 4) Data collection through: observation, interviews. Data analysis was carried out by assessing the conditions that occurred before, during and after the implementation of the digital literacy curriculum and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that the Tular Nalar digital literacy curriculum in the PKK RW 69 Mitra Griya Asrita community provides awareness in critical thinking. PKK women become “Tahu (know), Tanggap (respond), Tangguh (resilient)” in responding to information in disaster emergency situations.

scholarly journals Attitudes of Czech College Students Toward Digital Literacy and Their Technical Aids in Times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Katarína Krpálková Krelová ◽  
Kateřina Berková ◽  
Pavel Krpálek ◽  
Andrea Kubišová
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Technical Aids ◽  
Significance Levels

At present, when the whole world is struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic, it is important to address both the issue of flexibility when educating the younger generation and the issue of further professional education, which contributes to the development of competences that are directly relevant to life and everyday activities in the 21st century. The common denominator of these competences is digital competence. It is the aspect of education that is of primary and crucial importance for digital literacy development. This re-search study aims at establishing the availability of digital media and atti-tudes towards one’s own technical aids and digital literacy among students of two higher education institutions in the Czech Republic. Empirical research involved 1233 college students. The set research hypotheses were tested with a questionnaire-based survey using the Likert scale. A cluster analysis was conducted in the SPSS program. In view of the ordinal nature of data, the nonparametric Mann–Whitney U test conducted at significance levels of 5% and 1% in SPSS was applied to test the dependence of competence self-assessment on the specialization of the higher education institutions/ study level/ study form. The research has unequivocally proven that digital literacy is influenced by education, in terms of the specific study programme special-ization, study level and study form.

scholarly journals PETA GERAKAN LITERASI DIGITAL DI INDONESIA: STUDI TENTANG PELAKU, RAGAM KEGIATAN, KELOMPOK SASARAN DAN MITRA YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH JAPELIDI

INFORMASI ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Novi Kurnia ◽  
Santi Indra Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Literacy Programs ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Literacy Activities ◽  
Research Findings

Digital society nowadays faces various problems such as hoax or fake news, privacyviolation, cyberbullying, violence and pornography content, digital media addiction.The question is whether such problems are emerging because of there is no adequatedigital literacy in Indonesia? To answer this question, Jaringan Pegiat Literasi Digital(Japelidi, Network of Digital Literacy Activists) conducts a mapping research on digitalliteracy movement in Indonesia. This study involves 56 researchers from 26 universitiesin Indonesia. It maps out 342 digital literacy activities conducted in 9 cities in Indonesia.Some research findings are: universities are the main actor in literacy digital movement inIndonesia, public speaking forums are the most frequent digital literacy activities, maintarget group for digital literacy is the youth and schools are the best partners for digitalliteracy activities. Based on these findings, the study recommends some suggestions:to increase the digital literacy activities conducted by various actors in Indonesia, todevelop various methods of digital literacy programs, to widen the target groups, andto establish relationship with various partners not only schools, but also government,media and corporation. In addition, the study recommend that digital literacy should beimplemented in various levels: family, schools, and the state.Beragam persoalan seperti informasi hoaks, pelanggaran privacy, cyberbullying, konten kekerasan dan pornografi, dan adiksi media digital dianggap sebagai persoalan masyarakat digital terkini. Pertanyaannya, apakah problem tersebut muncul karena rendahnya literasi digital di Indonesia? Untuk menjawab pertanyaan tersebut, Jaringan Pegiat Literasi Digital (Japelidi) melakukan pemetaan gerakan literasi digital di Indonesia. Dengan metode desk study dan case study, penelitian melibatkan 56 peneliti dari 28 prodi yang berasal dari 26 universitas. Kajian mencakup 342 kegiatan literasi digital di 9 kota di Indonesia memetakan setidaknya 342 kegiatan. Temuan utama penelitian ini antara lain: perguruan tinggi adalah pelaku utama atau motor dalam gerakan literasi digital, sosialisasi adalah kegiatan yang paling sering dilakukan, kaum muda merupakan kelompok sasaran yang paling dominan, dan mitra yang paling adalah sekolah. Penelitian merekomendasikan perlunya lebih banyak pelaku kegiatan yang bukan berasal dari perguruan tinggi, pentingnya mengeksplorasi ragam literasi digital yang bersifat kreatif dan ‘empowerment’, perlunya memperluas target sasaran literasi digital supaya tidak hanya tertuju pada kaum muda saja, dan pentingnya kemitraan dengan berbagai pihak diperluas dan diperkuat, khususnya dengan pemerintah, media dan korporasi. Selain itu, peneliti merekomendasikan bahwa literasi digital harus diberikan dalam level keluarga, sekolah, dan negara. 

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