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Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy

Being a digital citizen is more than just being online, it's knowing how to act responsibly, critically and with respect

Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship?

Media Literacy

What is Media Literacy?

Fake News

What is Fake News? How does it spread? How to identify it?

Disinformation

What is disinformation? How does it spread? How to identify it?

Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy

Being a digital citizen is more than just being online, it's knowing how to act responsibly, critically and with respect

Digital Citizenship

What is Digital Citizenship?

What it is:

Digital citizenship is the ability of society to actively participate in the digital environment in an ethical, safe and responsible way.

Main elements:

• Digital Access: The right to equal access to the internet and technologies.
• Digital Literacy: Ability to research, evaluate and understand digital content.
• Digital Communication: Respectful interaction on social networks and applications.
• Digital Etiquette: Standards for ethical behavior online.
• Digital Commerce: Awareness of rights in online transactions.
• Digital Law: Regulating legal relationships in the virtual environment.
• Data Security and Privacy: Protection against unauthorized access.
• Digital Health and Wellbeing: The impact of excessive use of technology on mental and physical health.

Pros:

Cons:

• Prevents digital crime.
• Promotes social inclusion.
• Allows freedom of expression while respecting the rights of others.

• Inequality in access to technology.
• Lack of education on safe internet use.
• Combating disinformation.
• Protection of personal data.

Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy

Being a digital citizen is more than just being online, it's knowing how to act responsibly, critically and with respect

Media Literacy

What is Media Literacy?

Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create content in different media critically and effectively.

What it is:

• It strengthens democracy by empowering citizens to actively participate in public discourse.
• Helps combat disinformation by promoting critical consumption of information.

• Access: Finding information on different platforms.
• Critical Analysis: Assessing the credibility of sources and distinguishing between facts and opinions.
• Production: Creating and sharing your own content.
• Contextual Understanding: Understanding how the media influences cultural perceptions and behavior.

Main components:

Current challenges:

• Unequal access to the internet limits the development of these skills.
• Need for continuous education on safe and critical internet navigation.

Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy

Being a digital citizen is more than just being online, it's knowing how to act responsibly, critically and with respect

Fake News

What are they? Where do they appear? How to identify them?

What they are:

Fake news is false or misleading information presented as if it were real news, which can be intentionally created to misinform, manipulate public opinion or generate clicks and views on digital platforms.Fake news can take many forms, including articles, videos and images that distort reality or present facts in a misleading way.

They arise mainly in digital environments, where the dissemination of information is fast and widespread, through social networks such as Instagram because they are quick to share, using viral messages such as WhatsApp to share between groups, clicking on dubious websites in a sensationalist way to attract clicks, all with the aim of emotional manipulation, generating emotions such as anger and fear or even strategic disinformation on the part of political groups in order to influence the public.

Where they appear:

• Check the source.
• Check several sites.
• Be wary of sensationalist headlines.
• Consult fact-checkers (e.g. Polygraph, FactCheck.org).

How to identify:

Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy

Being a digital citizen is more than just being online, it's knowing how to act responsibly, critically and with respect

Disinformation

What is disinformation? How does it spread? How to identify it?

Disinformation refers to the dissemination of false or misleading information, intentionally created and shared to deceive the public. This phenomenon can occur in various forms, including fake news, manipulation of images and videos (such as deepfakes), using distorted narratives that aim to influence opinions or behavior in order to manipulate public perception, affecting political, social and economic decisions.

What disinformation is:

How it spreads:

Disinformation appears in a variety of contexts and platforms, but is most common in the following media:

• Social Networks, as they are environments conducive to the spread of disinformation, since they allow for the rapid and widespread sharing of content without rigorous verification.

• Political Manipulation: In election periods it can be created and spread to influence public opinion.

• Clickbait Culture: The quest for views and interactions leads many content creators to distort facts in order to attract attention.

• Lack of Media Literacy: The absence of critical skills in evaluating information allows people to accept and share false content without questioning its veracity.

How to identify:

• Check that the source is reliable
• Research the author or website that published the information.
• Compare with other sources
• Pay special attention to information that provokes intense emotions (anger, shock).