Networked Sharing: Participation, Copyright, and Values
Networked Sharing: Participation, Copyright, and Values
This chapter challenges understandings of participatory culture by examining the barriers that prevent some marginalized media creators from sharing their creative media in online spaces. Students cited three reasons why they didn’t want to share their creative content online: fear that someone would steal it, concerns that their work wasn’t professional enough, or they lacked the time and access required to build beneficial online networks. The students’ legitimate concerns reflect the ways learning is embedded within cultural systems and relationships and highlights the need for literacy development and adult guidance in learning how to fully and safely participate online. Although intentional online visibility is accompanied by risk, it can also be beneficial to students’ identities and future aspirations. The chapter makes suggestions for ways that schools can equip students with the necessary digital literacies and protections necessary for them to safely participate in a collaborative manner that is mutually beneficial to students and society.
Keywords: YouTube, network literacy, professional aspirations, identity, safety, visibility, inequality, creativity, videos, amateur
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