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INFORMATION LITERACY AND DIGITAL SAFETY: Online Safety

Understanding Online Harms

Broom, D. (2023). How can we prevent online harm without a common language for it? These 6 definitions will help make the internet safer. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/09/definitions-online-harm-internet-safer/

Annotation: Article summarizing the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety typology of online harms. Defines harmful content across six categories: threats to personal and community safety, harm to health and wellbeing, hate and discrimination, violation of dignity, invasion of privacy, and deception and manipulation.

World Economic Forum. (2023). Toolkit for digital safety design interventions and innovations: Typology of online harms. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Typology_of_Online_Harms_2023.pdf

Annotation: Detailed report from the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety providing a foundational typology and common language for defining online harms, organized into six categories.

Peer Review: None

Table of contents:

2.1. Contextualizing Information Literacy

2.2. Using Library Resources
2.2.1. Finding and Accessing Resources
2.2.2. Research Guides and Tutorials

2.3. Source Evaluation

2.4. News and Media Literacy
2.4.1. Media Literacy
2.4.2. Misinformation and Fact-Checking

2.5. Artificial Intelligence
2.5.1. Understanding AI
2.5.2. Evaluating AI
2.5.3. AI Terminology
2.5.4. AI Ethics

2.6. Online Safety
2.6.1. Avoiding Scams and Fraud
2.6.2. Data Privacy and Protection
2.6.2.1. Understanding Data Privacy
2.6.2.2. General Data Protection Regulation
2.6.3. Information Security
2.6.4. Digital Safety

2.6.4.1. Understanding Online Harms

2.6.4.2. Protecting Yourself Online
2.6.5. Cyberbullying
2.6.6. Ethical Social Media

2.7. Copyright

 

Author: Leeanne Irwin

Peer Reviewer(s): None