1. Born Digital Dawn Cummins Carlen DeThorne Pamela Ruos Katie Sleyko

2. Class Survey Are you a Digital Native or a Digital Immigrant?

3. What is a Digital Native? Born after 1980 Access to networked digital technologies Born Digital + Live Digital = Digital Native Who’s Afraid of the Digital Native? Who’s Afraid of the Digital Native?

4. Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives Digital Immigrants Older people Less familiar with internet environment Digital Natives Read blogs instead of newspapers Get music online not at a store Send IM or text on cell phone instead of call

5. What Kinds of Things Do Digital Natives Do? Constantly connected Social network sites Extremely creative Different ways of expression than parents had Rely on internet for research Google and Wikipedia Wikipedia Facebook

6. Identity Formation  Two forms of Identity- Personal and Social  Agrarian Age- Identity easily changed  Industrial Age- Harder to change identity  Internet Age- Almost impossible to change identity Woman from Agragarian Age Girl from Industrial Revolution

7. Online and Offline Identities Not broken up into online and offline identities Exist simultaneously Experiment with self- representation Reinvention of identities World of Warcraft Second Life

8. Changing Identities in the Internet Age Infinite array of possibilities for recreating self in a wide range of platforms Bound tighter than ever to a unitary identity in the real world Organizations track and record movements Nearly impossible to completely start over

9. The Changing Nature of Identity Nature of Identity is changing in the 21 st century Affects everyone living in wired societies Concern ourselves with those who do not have the literacy skills to protect themselves

10. Discussion Question: Digital Natives are much more willing than their grandparents were to share personal information with others, both friends and people they have never met. What do you think drives Digital Natives to post so much information about themselves online?

11. An Example of How a Digital Dossier is Compiled Andy’s Digital Dossier

12. Dossiers All digital information about a given person Individuals are losing control over their dossiers Those born digital will have a large number of digital files kept about them

13. Digital Dossiers and Digital Natives Rapid growth of dossiers Can become aggregated and searched Digital natives not worried about their dossiers Work toward digital future where privacy and safety is assured

14. Discussion Question: Can you think of five sources not mentioned in the video that contribute to your digital dossier?

15. Privacy Online information as tattoos and why you may regret it later. “Googling” yourself – yes, you’re really out there!Googling Whether or not it is readily accessible, it is out there!

16. Privacy Continued… Really places for friends? Privacy settings and America’s youth Kids are still kids and need parent and teachers! Job and College Applications

17. About Google… In case you didn’t know, Google tracks everything! IP address search information Logged-in user search information. Results in tailored searches for your IP address or login

18. Safety Unknown friends – when people just seem nice… Cyber Bullying MySpace’s 100-year-old teenagers Supervised internet activity and keeping it safe – how digital native can stay smart!

19. Discussion Questions: Is growing up as a Digital Native really more dangerous than it was to grow up in the world before the Web? How worried should we really be? About what should we worry?

20. Creators Examples include YouTube videos, Fan Fiction, Blogs, Remix’s, Wiki’s 2/3 Teens & 1/3 Adults have created content on the internet Global Phenomenon Requires Interactivity with both content & other users Inherently in tension with existing copyright

21. Pirates Creativity is the upside / law breaking is the downside Napster June 1999 Peer-to-Peer file sharing is wildly popular Focus groups revealed that Digital Natives have a lack of concern for copyright law Apple’s iTunes was 1 st attractive, viable option for going legit

22. Overload TMI: Information Age edition The internet as a disease How do we process information efficiently when bombarded with it? Google Social Tagging RSS

23. Question: How would you go about finding information on a totally new subject? What decisions do you make about it based on your sources? Do you examine source bias?

24. Aggressors Video games don’t cause violence, but… Violence exposure ups chances of violent behavior of viewer Counterpoint: Release-valve value Parents as gatekeepers: encouraged to use rating systems, turn off TVs

25. Innovators The internet makes every invention harder, better, faster, stronger Innovations use the labor of the consumer Computers are fast and cheap; this allows YouTube to exist The internet as one big focus group Multi-taskers as employees: a manager’s dream

26. Learners Kids use laptops to slack off in class Also, they learn more and better because of social information sharing Copy and paste education? Teachers: Use technology as bridging of Digital Divide, and as supplements, not “just because” Libraries: Become navigation centers of information technology, more heavy on digital than books Update daily with “rivers” of information, say authors; don’t wade into the “pool” of the WWW

27. Discussion question: Should libraries focus more effort on information technology than print? What do you think of the authors’ “river/pool” dichotomy? Should libraries focus on user’s short-term needs (“rivers”) or their long- term needs (“pools”)?

28. Activists Citizen journalism Citizen journalism Political implications of online participation On the politician: More fundraising efforts On the citizens: More places to gather to talk about politics Participatory communities about politics rather than a talking-heads dominated game a typical internet political community

29. Synthesis This is basically a “oh look we finished but we’re calling our last chapter ‘synthesis’ because we’re pretentious” chapter Basic thrust is: we can guide those silly youth into good choices by the power of the law