UNIT 3. Social Media and Digital Footprint - 30 minutes
Themes:
- Understanding the Consequences of Your Digital Footprint
- Understanding Online Hate Speech
- Handling Cyberbullying and Online Harassment
How?
- Introduction and understanding the consequences of digital footprint (Approx. 10 minutes):
All citizens should be aware of how to protect their online identities, protect their personal data and maintain a modicum of privacy if so enabled. By using critical judgment and performing simple research, digital citizens should be able to change the privacy settings on most platforms and apps in order to maintain positive online identities With the GDPR implemented across the European Union in 2018, individuals should have more control over their data and privacy and be able to control their online presence in a manner they deem suitable.
All citizens should be aware of how to protect their online identities, protect their personal data and maintain a modicum of privacy if so enabled. By using critical judgment and performing simple research, digital citizens should be able to change the privacy settings on most platforms and apps in order to maintain positive online identities With the GDPR ( General Data Protection Regulation) implemented across the European Union in 2018, individuals should have more control over their data and privacy and be able to control their online presence in a manner they deem suitable. Some of these new “rights” were either not feasible or unnecessary before the inter- net came to play such a major role in our lives, including the following examples:
- portability” – the right to request that your personal data are moved to another service provider, for example when you change your mobile or social network platform operator;
- the right “to be forgotten”, meaning that you can ask to have your personal data deleted if you no longer want them to be processed, and there is no legitimate reason for a company to keep them;
- the right to receive clear and understandable information;
- child-friendly information has to be adapted into clear, understandable language to replace those long, complicated terms and conditions that no one reads anyway.
- Understanding Online Hate Speech and Handling Cyberbullying and Online Harassment (Approx. 10 minutes):
Online hate speech is a growing problem in today’s digitalized societies.Online hate proliferates where human content moderators miss offensive content. Also, algorithms are prone to errors. They may multiply errors over time and may even end up promoting online hate.
YOUR TASK FOR THIS CHAPTER:
Check out the latest report from the Fundamental Rights Agency HERE
Watch the short video and explore resources HERE.
You can download a Council of Europe publication Bookmarks- A manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education HERE
Optional
Explore Project Confident https://theconfident.org/ by the Connect International where you can find research and the methodology on working on these topics and issues.