Creating a DecisionMaking Matrix for Digital Safety The

Creating a Decision-Making Matrix for Digital Safety

The Challenge…. Prepare for today? Or Prepare for tomorrow?

Sources Nigam, Hemanshu, and Anne Collier. "Youth Safety on a Living Internet. " National Telecommunications and Information Administration. 4 June 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. http: //www. ntia. doc. gov/legacy/reports/2010/OSTWG_Final_Report_060410. pdf The Mc. Arthur Foundation. "Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project. " Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project. The Mc. Arthur Foundation, 19 Nov. 2008. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. http: //www. macfound. org/atf/cf/%7 BB 0386 CE 3 -8 B 29 -4162 -8098 E 466 FB 856794%7 D/DML_ETHNOG_WHITEPAPER. PDF.

Teach and Model for Tomorrow “The best software is between the ears. ” Susan Crawford

Access is Everywhere “There is no single ‘silver bullet’ solution or technological ‘quick-fix. ’ ” Youth Safety on a Living Internet

Four Properties of Networked “Public” • Persistence: online expressions are automatically recorded and archived. • Replicability: content made out of bits can be duplicated. • Scalability: the potential visibility of content in networked publics is great. • Searchability: content in networked publics can be accessed through search Taken Out of Context, danah boyd

From a Big World to a Small World Small world, big world, small world again.

Audience is Everything “A technology’s value is shaped by its social construction—how designers create it and how people use it, interpret it, and reconfigure it. It is not an outcome of the technology alone or its potential. ” Taken out of context, d. boyd Social context is driven by audience. Are you a part of your children’s audience?

The New Norm of Digital Communications �Invisible audiences: not all audiences are visible when a person is contributing online, nor are they necessarily co-present. �Collapsed contexts: the lack of spatial, social, and temporal boundaries makes it difficult to maintain distinct social contexts. �The blurring of public and private: without control over context, public and private become meaningless binaries, are scaled in new ways, and are difficult to maintain as distinct. Taken out of context, d. boyd

How Youth Use Digital Communications �Four participatory activities Circulating media Connecting with each other Creating Media Collaborating with each other Mc. Arthur Digital Youth Project

Connect Safely Online �Taxonomy of Safety Physical Safety Psychological Safety Reputational Safety Identity, Property, and Community Safety www. Connect. Safely. org, Anne Collier

Decision-Making Matrix Physical Psychological Reputational & Legal Identity, Property & Community Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Types of Activities Safety

Twitter Physical Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Psychological Will sending Will this be this message hurtful to put me at risk? anyone? Identity, Reputational Property & & Legal Community Will this risk my Will this jeopardize my identity in damaging ways? future?

Twitter, as Circulating Media

Twitter Physical Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Psychological Will sending Will this be this message hurtful to put me at risk? anyone? Identity, Reputational Property & & Legal Community Will this risk my Will this jeopardize my identity in damaging ways? future?

Twitter Physical Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Psychological Will sending Will this be this message hurtful to put me at risk? anyone? Identity, Reputational Property & & Legal Community Will this risk my Will this jeopardize my identity in damaging ways? future?

Facebook Physical Psychological Reputational & Legal Identity, Property & Community Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Will this be Will sending hurtful to this message put me at risk? anyone? Will this risk my/others identity jeopardize anyone’s future? in damaging ways?

Facebook tagging, as Connecting with Media

You. Tube Physical Psychological Will sending this message put me at risk? Will this be hurtful to anyone? Reputational & Legal Identity, Property & Community Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Will this risk my/ jeopardize others identity in anyone’s future? damaging ways?

Uploading Videos, as Creating Media

Wikipedia Physical Psychological Reputational & Legal Identity, Property & Community Connect Create Collaborate Will sending Will this be this message hurtful to put me at risk? anyone? Will this risk my/ jeopardize others identity in anyone’s future? damaging ways?

Wikipedia, as Collaborating with Media Stephen Colbert on 'Wikiality' – “the method of making something up, but getting enough people to agree with you so it becomes reality. ”

Mc. Arthur Digital Youth Project “Most young people are trying to make the right choices in a world that most of us don’t fully understand, yet a world where they can’t get good advice from the adults around them. ”

Know What the Possibilities Are �Geo-locational Technology �Memes/ Hashtags �Flash Mobs �Addiction/Obsession �Password Security �Screen Sharing

Not a Map, But a Compass Physical Circulate Connect Create Collaborate Psychological Reputational & Legal Identity, Property & Community