Chapter 1. LaunchPad for Media and Culture 12e Media Literacy Activity: Online Safety and Privacy

Introduction

Media Literacy Activity: Online Safety and Privacy
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Activity Objective:

In this activity, you will apply the critical process to examine issues of online safety and privacy.

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Reviewing the Critical Process

Developing a media-literate critical perspective involves mastering five overlapping stages that build on one another. Let’s review the critical process you’ll be using below:

Description: paying close attention, taking notes, and researching the subject under study

Analysis: discovering and focusing on significant patterns that emerge from the description stage

Interpretation: asking and answering “What does that mean?” and “So what?” questions about one’s findings

Evaluation: arriving at a judgment about whether something is good, bad, or mediocre, which involves subordinating one’s personal taste to the critical “bigger picture” resulting from the first three stages

Engagement: taking some action that connects our critical perspective with our role as citizens to question our media institutions, adding our own voice to the process of shaping the cultural environment

Description

  1. Gather information about online safety and privacy tips by visiting three or more of the following Web sites:
  2. Based on your findings, identify three specific tips for protecting your privacy online. These tips could be about things you did not previously know regarding online safety and privacy, or they could be specific tips that you think others should know.
  3. Design a quick survey to collect data from at least five classmates.
    1. Do classmates already know about each specific tip?
    2. Have classmates already followed the advice suggested by each tip?
    3. Would classmates follow the advice suggested by each tip?
    4. Do classmates think the tips are important or not? Why do they think the tips are important or not?

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Analysis

Using the findings from your survey, let’s explore what patterns emerge in your classmates' attitudes and behaviors about online safety and privacy.

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Interpretation

Next, identify the meaning of the patterns you found regarding online safety and privacy.

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Evaluation

Through the following questions, assess ways that you think the Web sites your your classmates attitudes and behaviors are right or wrong, good or bad, are fine, or should change.

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Engagement

Let’s take action! Identify ways you can take action regarding online safety and privacy. Here are some suggestions on how to get involved:

  • Identify ways you can change your own behavior to be online safely and protect your privacy.
  • Encourage classmates to change their behavior to be online safely and protect their privacy.
  • Become an advocate for online safety and privacy by joining an initiative promoted by one of the Web sites you used.

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