Digital Media Literacy as a Precondition for Engaged Digital Citizenship

platforms for distributing it, has made it possible for → Some features of networked digital media nearly anyone to make and distribute their own media complicate the development of digital media works; and for people to find allies, to organize, and literacy because of their lack of transparency; to share their opinions on civic and political issues their influence and decision making are opaque. [...] Similarly, the democratization of media production and About the Authors distribution, which allows previously unheard voices to bypass the traditional media gatekeepers, provides a vehicle for disinformation and hatred as Kara Brisson-Boivin is the director of well (Greenspon and Owen 2018). [...] academic conferences, and governments While the networked nature of these communication and organizations around the world and technologies may be positive for civic engagement, participated in the drafting of the Canadian their digital qualities may have the opposite effect Paediatric Society’s recommendations because they are liable to be both more manipulative for screen use by children and you. [...] Beyond recognizing the necessity of free and equitable internet access, our model The first requirement to allow critical engagement of digital media literacy should be updated to with digital media is to ensure that our model recognize that we are no longer just consumers of digital media literacy fully reflects today’s but also users of media; therefore, the core networked and digital media envi. [...] Aubin and Liedke 2023), a commitment Media literacy is like learning a language, so to digital media literacy as a solution is an you have both the technical skill to use media essential counterbalance to calls for censorship and the ability to understand it” (quoted in and limits to freedom of thought and expression.