As I was perusing NPR for news today I came across this article about Digital Citizenship.
We have been discussing the new literacy over the last couple of weeks, and the question I have after reading this article is does that new literacy also include new rules when it comes to social interactions? Is it the schools responsibility to teach these new rules, is it the parents responsibility or is the answer somewhere in between?
I would say it needs to be both. Although are they entirely new rules? I heard this NPR story on the Rutger student's suicide, and it brings up the issue that public humiliation is nothing new. It's just taken a new form.
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Great find Mark. I agree with Kelly, it is the parents and the school's responsibility to teach these new rules. If people can't be responsible for policing each other it will come to a point where the internet needs to be policed, which translates into censorship. I think that would go against the whole point of the web. It is a free-for-all...that's the beauty of it! Just learn how to respect it, and how to resepect each other.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a mixture of both education and parents. This was a sad article though because he just jumps off a bridge. Man o man!
ReplyDeleteI do think they are entirely new rules. Yes, there has and always will be public humiliation; however, that humiliation was not available to everyone in the world...today, it is.
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