Digital Citizenship
Today's lesson in digital citizenship touched on several points.
Images, Art, and Copyright
Mr. Wilson showed us the photos that were added to the sidebar of our blog, and then he related his discussions with Cathy English at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives about the use of these photos on our blog.
The photos are not copyrighted, but Ms. English did indicate that it would be a kind of moral wrong if, say, Mr. Wilson were to use these photos to make Christmas cards and sell them for profit. In an online environment, we wondered if the museum could explore copyright as an option.
For the time being, we have indicated that these photos are the property of the museum.
Ms. Crucil also discussed the challenges facing artists online. Marketing artwork places your ideas and creative work online which makes it vulnerable to theft or misuse.
Consent and Digital Images
SET-BC has asked us to complete forms that allow the use of digital images of project participants. We discussed the implications of sharing images online, the legal implications of sharing images (especially intimate images) without a person's consent (it's illegal and could be considered child pornography). We also agreed that in terms of our blog posts, we would only use first names and ask permissions before posting photos of students.
We also discussed the irony of a recent news story making the rounds -that Facebook wants you to give copies of your intimate photos to them to help combat revenge porn. Maybe the best idea would be to avoid having any sort of digital images made in the first place. We extended our conversations to the more complex ways in which technology and social media affect our thinking processes and mental health. Using an episode of Black Mirror entitled Nosedive, we examined the ways we use media and brainstormed ideas about how to be responsible creators and users of content and imagery.
As digital citizens, we also have a responsibility to know how to safeguard our privacy by thinking before we send anything online. It is also wise to be familiar with the privacy settings of the applications we use, and we even discussed how images can be manipulated with applications like Photoshop.
Mr. Wilson then confessed that he had photoshopped an image of one of the students in the class that highlighted a unique and somewhat unusual quality of this student. He asked what kind of problems could arise (especially if he had not previously asked for consent) and we explored the possibilities. He then showed us the image of a photoshopped work that he called "Guardian of the Walkman".
Keep on rocking to those cassette tapes, Erik!
Erik allowed us to post this image on our blog:
Images, Art, and Copyright
Mr. Wilson showed us the photos that were added to the sidebar of our blog, and then he related his discussions with Cathy English at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives about the use of these photos on our blog.
The photos are not copyrighted, but Ms. English did indicate that it would be a kind of moral wrong if, say, Mr. Wilson were to use these photos to make Christmas cards and sell them for profit. In an online environment, we wondered if the museum could explore copyright as an option.
For the time being, we have indicated that these photos are the property of the museum.
Ms. Crucil also discussed the challenges facing artists online. Marketing artwork places your ideas and creative work online which makes it vulnerable to theft or misuse.
Consent and Digital Images
SET-BC has asked us to complete forms that allow the use of digital images of project participants. We discussed the implications of sharing images online, the legal implications of sharing images (especially intimate images) without a person's consent (it's illegal and could be considered child pornography). We also agreed that in terms of our blog posts, we would only use first names and ask permissions before posting photos of students.
We also discussed the irony of a recent news story making the rounds -that Facebook wants you to give copies of your intimate photos to them to help combat revenge porn. Maybe the best idea would be to avoid having any sort of digital images made in the first place. We extended our conversations to the more complex ways in which technology and social media affect our thinking processes and mental health. Using an episode of Black Mirror entitled Nosedive, we examined the ways we use media and brainstormed ideas about how to be responsible creators and users of content and imagery.
As digital citizens, we also have a responsibility to know how to safeguard our privacy by thinking before we send anything online. It is also wise to be familiar with the privacy settings of the applications we use, and we even discussed how images can be manipulated with applications like Photoshop.
Mr. Wilson then confessed that he had photoshopped an image of one of the students in the class that highlighted a unique and somewhat unusual quality of this student. He asked what kind of problems could arise (especially if he had not previously asked for consent) and we explored the possibilities. He then showed us the image of a photoshopped work that he called "Guardian of the Walkman".
Keep on rocking to those cassette tapes, Erik!
Erik allowed us to post this image on our blog:
