Digital Tattoo 2021 Welcome!
Welcome to the Digital Tattoo Project! We are so excited to welcome you back to another exciting semester at UBC, UofT, or wherever you’re reading from! In case you need a refresher, I’ll be explaining who we are, what we do, and how you can engage with our content.
What is the Digital Tattoo Project?
The Digital Tattoo Project is a students-as-partners collaboration between the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. Our content is created by student coordinators and student guest contributors who strive to make useful and interesting posts by students for students and the community.
Our goal is to ask questions, provide examples, and give you the resources to critically think about your digital identity and its components, including online privacy, digital safety, and your online academic and professional life.
How can you use our site?
The DT website is full of interesting and helpful content that can help you to navigate many aspects of your digital life. If you want to test your skills before getting started, you can check out our Quizzes on privacy and surveillance, your academic and professional life, and copyright and open access before you dive in to learn more. We even have some brand new quizzes on topics like social media use, spotting fake news, and digital wellbeing for you to learn more about your online habits!
After you assess your skills, I would recommend checking out our handy Tutorials to take an in-depth look at various aspects of digital identity. Here are some great places to start:
- Managing Your Online Profile: this tutorial explains how you can shape your online “self” to be more professional
- Fact Checking: this tutorial explores how fact checking works and gives you great tips for spotting fake news
We also have some brand new tutorials published just this summer. Check them out:
- Algorithms and Your Data: this tutorial how algorithms use your data and can become biased (and even racist and sexist)
- Sharing Sensitive Content Online: this tutorial explores some of the things you should consider before you share emotionally or politically sensitive content online
We also have a huge array of Blog Posts from DT coordinators and guest contributors from UBC and UofT covering topics such as digital identity and authenticity, using your online democratic voice, and Canada’s changing internet regulations. Two especially interesting blog posts that I’d like to recommend are this guest post by Johnson Huang about his experience with fake news and this guest post by Sasha Krieger which challenges readers to think about the environmental impact of their digital identities.
Learn and Explore
While this post gives you plenty of resources to get started, the Digital Tattoo website is full of thought-provoking content around digital identity and online safety, so don’t forget to poke around the rest of the site. From all of us at Digital Tattoo, have fun exploring and we hope you have a fantastic first term!
What is the biggest digital identity question that you have? And how can you incorporate digital safety into your online habits? Let us know in the comments below!
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