Tag Archive for: social media

Britain Draws a Line in the Sand: What the UK’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Means
Critical Literacies & Human AgencyBritain’s under-16 social media ban is one of the toughest yet. But will it work? We compare the UK’s approach with Australia’s experience and explore what may matter most.

Understanding Meta’s Policy Change to Community Notes
Critical Literacies & Human AgencyMeta’s recent shift from traditional fact-checking to community-driven moderation tools, like Community Notes, redefines content oversight on social platforms. This blog post examines how this change challenges established practices, impacts political narratives, and raises critical questions on misinformation, user trust, and democracy and accountability in today’s profoundly decentralized truth arbitration.

Module 5: Digital Consumption
3CL News, Digital Literacy Lab for EducatorsThis marks the final module of the Digital Literacy Lab for Educators course and arguably the most important given the challenging online information landscape now regularly highlighted by world events. Here, Dr Emma Pauncefort digs deep into…

Module 3: The Attention Economy and Information Disorder
3CL News, Digital Literacy Lab for EducatorsModule 3 of the Digital Literacy Lab for Educators (DLLE) MOOC expands upon the twin sketches of the far-reaching opportunities and challenges we face when we go online, as explored at the end of Module 2. Discussion of what we understand by…

Module 2: Digital Literacy and Society
3CL News, Digital Literacy Lab for EducatorsModule 2 of the Digital Literacy Lab for Educators (DLLE) MOOC offers a unique socio-cultural narrative on the development of our digital world since Tim Berners Lee and Robert Caillau’s 1990 proposal for a system to share information digitally.…

The Social Dilemma: A conversation with Joe Toscano
3CL NewsAlex Grech speaks to Joe Toscano about The Social Dilemma. A documentary on Netflix about social media and the need for citizen digital literacy.