Talk:Perspectives in Digital Literacy

categories to consider

Reliability Privacy, Surveillance, Net Neutrality Algorithms, Data Mining, Marketing YouTube Misinformation and Propaganda Facebook and Fake News Deepfakes Future of Journalism Free culture, Crowdsourcing, Peer Production, Copyright, and Creative Commons Licenses Activism, protest, social change, hacktivists Digital Labor Cyberbullying Social Media Social Media and Youth Social media influencers and celebrity Social media and mental health Addiction to technology Narcissism

Dark web

Open access/ free culture

The way you create your chapter will depend on your target audience and what you want them to focus on when thinking of the topic(s). Here is a list of typical information that helps a reader understand a topic and reflect on its purpose and significance:

Epigraph: a short quotation or saying (may be more than one) at the beginning of the chapter that suggests its themes or concerns. Context: the circumstances that frame a text and provide resources for its appropriate interpretation. In other words, the historical, cultural, and/or textual situation in which the text was created, perhaps including relevant biographical information about the text's creator(s). Summary: an account of the main points of a text. Summaries are useful if the text is long or complex. Quotes: a selection of passages from a text that reflect some particularly important idea that cannot be paraphrased. Quotes are useful if you want to attract the reader's attention to specific moments in the text or to the way language is being used. It is especially useful when combined with close reading questions (see below). Images, sound, and/ or video to illustrate or explain a concept, theme, and/or purpose in a non-textual manner. Textual analysis: an examination of the elements and structure of a text to explain it, explain its importance, and its relationship to other texts or to the larger culture. Notes: a short comment on or explanation of a word or passage in a text; an annotation. Glossary: an alphabetical list of words found in the text with explanations; a brief dictionary. It is particularly useful if your text uses words in a language other than English. References/Works Cited: a list of sources of information used in the chapter or sections of it.

If you want your reader to engage with the text(s), you may try adding a few of the following sections:

Comprehension questions: questions intended to help readers process and understand the information they are reading. These questions usually have right and wrong answers; if so, you may want to include the correct answers in a separate section. Close reading questions: questions intended to help readers to "micro-read" selected segments and/or aspects of the text(s) such as their structural elements, rhetorical features, and cultural and historical allusions. Critical thinking questions: questions intended to have the reader reflect or inquire, such as open-ended questions, (re)search questions, comparison questions, problem-solving questions, connecting questions, and meta-cognitive questions about the text(s). Further reading: a usually chronological or alphabetical list of texts which a reader may consult for additional and more detailed coverage of the topic or themes of the text(s). It may include brief annotations.