"Everybody Knows Your Business"/"Todo Mundo Se Da Cuenta": Immigrant Adults' Construction of Privacy, Risk, and Vulnerability in Online Platforms. Issue 5 (19th September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Noguerón‐Liu, Silvia
• Is Part Of: Journal of adolescent & adult literacy. Volume 60:Issue 5(2017)
• Page Start: 505
• Page End: 513
• Publication Date: 2016-09-19
• Subjects: Visual literacy < Digital/media literacies -- Critical analysis < Digital/media literacies -- Community‐based programs, resources < Family literacy -- Intergenerational literacy < Family literacy -- Parental involvement < Family literacy -- Socioeconomic factors < Family literacy -- Action research, teacher research < Research methodology -- Critical literacy < Theoretical perspectives -- 6‐Adult; Reading -- Periodicals; Literacy -- Periodicals; 374.0124
• DOI: 10.1002/jaal.599
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1081-3004

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines immigrant adults' understandings of privacy, risk, and vulnerability in digital literacy practices that involve visual media. Although the benefits of digital media production have been explored with immigrant youths, the perspectives of adults remain unexplored. Informed by critical and transnational perspectives to digital literacies, ethical guidelines in visual media research, and social constructions of privacy, the author analyzes interactions in technology workshops for Spanish‐dominant, immigrant adults. Findings illustrate how adults' understandings of online privacy are shaped by simultaneous affiliations to local and transnational networks. Findings also show differences in adults' distribution, consumption, production, and presence in visual media published in online platforms, as well as their perspectives about participating (or refusing to participate) in these practices. Implications for practitioners implementing technology projects with nondominant and immigrant communities are discussed.