Engaging with Web Archives: ‘Opportunities, Challenges and Potentialities’, (#EWAVirtual), 21-22 September 2020, Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

DELETE MY ACCOUNT: Ethical Approaches to Researching Youth Cultures in Historical Web Archives

#AoIR2020 – EVERY CLICK YOU MAKE: ALGORITHMIC LITERACY AND THE DIGITAL LIVES OF YOUNG ADULTS

Monica Jean Henderson, Leslie Regan Shade, Katie Mackinnon – University of Toronto. Critical digital literacy comprises subsets of medium- and content-related skills necessary for digital privacy and digital citizenship. Frameworks for defining and evaluating digital literacy proliferate in academia and policymaking; however, in a networked climate subsumed by dataveillance, algorithmic bias, political bots, and deep fakes, these frameworks need to be updated. Algorithms may be the greatest determinant in sociopolitical online interactions and information gathering, and without a multivalent literacy of algorithms, nuanced understandings of digital privacy and digital citizenship may be unachievable. Our paper shares findings from a participatory project co-designing an algorithmic literacy toolkit with young adults as co-researchers and participants.