WK 2 Writing Assignment 1 Media Literacy Activity_ Online Safety and Privacy
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WK 2 Mini Study Critical Process Analysis
Introduction: In this activity, you will apply the critical process to examine issues of online safety and privacy through the Critical Process you learned in WK 1. Reviewing the Critical Process
Developing a media-literate critical perspective involves mastering five overlapping stages that build on one another. Let’s review the critical process you’ll be using below:
Stage1.Description: paying close attention, taking notes, and researching the subject under study
Stage2.Analysis: discovering and focusing on significant patterns that emerge from the description stage
Stage3.Interpretation: asking and answering “What does that mean?” and “So what?” questions about one’s findings
Stage4.Evaluation: arriving at a judgment about whether something is good, bad, or mediocre, which involves subordinating one’s personal taste to the critical “bigger picture” resulting from the first three stages
Stage5.Engagement: taking some action that connects our critical perspective with our role as citizens to question our media institutions, adding our own voice to the process of shaping the cultural environment
Activity Objective:
Gather information about online safety and privacy tips by visiting three or more of the following Web sites:
ConnectSafely: https:/www.connectsafely.orgLinks to an external site.
Identity Theft Resource Center: https://www.idtheftcenter.org/Links to an external site. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: https://www.privacyrights.org/consumer-guidesLinks to an external site. National Cyber Security Alliance: https://staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-onlineLinks to an external site. Stop Think Connect: https://www.stopthinkconnect.org/Links to an external site. Consumer Reports: https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/66-ways-to-protect-your-privacy-
right-now-a7383217267/Links to an external site. Based on your findings, identify three specific tips for protecting your privacy online. These tips could be about things you did not previously know regarding online safety and privacy, or they could be specific tips that you think others should know.
Design a quick survey to collect data from at least five classmates.
Do classmates already know about each specific tip?
Have classmates already followed the advice suggested by each tip?
Would classmates follow the advice suggested by each tip?
Do classmates think the tips are important or not? Why do they think the tips are important or not?
Step 1. Description
Question
Tell me what three specific tips you chose. Write a brief summary of your mini study (how many people did you get responses from? what age and gender, and what was the breakdown of responses you received). You can include a table or chart if you prefer to present information that way. Step 2. Analysis
Using the findings from your survey, let’s explore what patterns emerge in your classmates' attitudes and behaviors about online safety and privacy.
Questions
What aspects of online safety and privacy do these Web sites seem most concerned about? Why?
What sorts of patterns emerge from your classmates' responses to your survey about online safety and privacy?
Are your classmates concerned or unconcerned about their online safety and privacy? How so? Have your questions made them consider their online safety privacy for the first time?
Step 3. Interpretation
Next, identify the meaning of the patterns you found regarding online safety and privacy.
Questions
What do these patterns mean?
What do these patterns tell you about your classmates' online behavior regarding safety and privacy?
What do these patterns tell you about your classmates' attitudes regarding online safety and privacy?
Step 4: Evaluation
Through the following questions, assess the ways that you think your classmates’ attitudes and behaviors are right or wrong, good or bad, are fine, or should change.
Questions
Do classmates care enough about their own online safety and privacy?
Are classmates doing enough about their own online safety and privacy?
Step 5: Engagement
Identify ways you can take action regarding online safety and privacy. Here are some suggestions on how to get involved:
Identify ways you can change your own behavior to be online safely and protect your privacy.
Encourage classmates to change their behavior to be online safely and protect their privacy.
Become an advocate for online safety and privacy by joining an initiative promoted by one of the
Web sites you used.
Question
Do you feel motivated to act? Why or why not? If yes, what are some ways that you can engage
with the issues of online safety and privacy?
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