Digital Literacies and My Identities

What is Digital Literacies?

Digital literacy means an individual for having a skill to learn, live, evaluate and work in society. In this society where accesing information and communication mainly through internet or digital platforms can be very helpful for having such skills from Digital Literacies. 

This type of Digital Literacies skill is how an individual utilize and process media platforms. This is a combination of technical and cognitive in using information and communication digitally. 

Why Digital Literacies is important? 

As said before, digital literacies can help people to live and work in this digital society. It helps people to acces and organize information with digital technology. For example, Digital Literacies can help people understand the importance of securing their own information from potential cyber attacks. 

Having a skill to securing and understanding how to secure your own information is one of Digital Literacies benefit, it will make you aware of any potential danger hanging around the digital society. 

What is Identity? 

When an individual is born, they automatically have their own identity. An Identity contains personal strait such as their name, age, race, their parents, height, weight, etc. And Identity also contains characteristic, affiliations, and social roles. 

Identity also refers 'who am i' in an individual meaning as a member in a social groups. It also refer on how people precieve and label us. 

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