Course: Becoming a Digital Citizen: an Introduction to the Digital Society

The overall theme for this first week of our course is ‘Digital access and information inequalities’, and we’ll be breaking that down into three activities: Digital society and citizenship: If …

How this all works Each week will have a theme, and we’ll learn about it through videos, articles and discussion. There will also be other optional tasks and exercises you …

That’s it – we’ve made it! We hope you’ve enjoyed this free online course on Becoming a Digital Citizen: An Introduction to the Digital Society. We also hope you’ve been …

We have nearly reached the end of our learning journey together and it’s time to reflect on some of the questions, ideas, and concepts that we have considered regarding the …

The internet, and social media in particular, has broken down tremendous boundaries. Once, if we wanted to talk to someone at the other side of the world, we would probably …

Young people aren’t interested in politics anymore. They don’t vote, they don’t join political parties, and they don’t trust politicians in the slightest. For instance, the Financial Times blog, in …

Do we have a censorship problem? Wikipedia defines censorship as… …the suppression of free speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or …

Tor is a free software project for online communication. In this video, Dr Philip Garnett takes a look at Tor and how it can be used. The Tor Project team …

The iconic Guy Fawkes mask drawn by David Lloyd for Alan Moore’s graphic novel V for Vendetta is now probably more synonymous with ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous. The impact of the …

You can choose to approach social media however you want, but there are certain things you can do which will help you get the most out of it… Above all, …

Bullying has been one of the great beneficiaries of the internet age. Before the internet, bullying was generally confined to the institution: the school or the workplace, and associated public …

Someone is wrong on the internet – how do you respond? Social media, comments sections, forums, all of these are fundamentally discursive tools, so response is certainly an option. Perhaps, …

In this video, Dr Darren Reed discusses the EPISODE project which aims to improve civic engagement with an open data archive. Environmental Policy In Simulation, Open Data, and Engagement (EPISODE) …

350 years after the first academic journals were published, the journal article remains central to the communication of scholarly information. But with most scholarly articles now digital and online, the …