Libraries and photo sharing in social media

This week, I read an interesting blog called, ‘On Remixing and Reshaping Online – I Do This for the Money, Prestige and Power. Said No Librarian Ever’ by Bobbi Newman posted on Librarian by Day blog.

Bobbi discussed about the issue of sharing photos with quotes on Facebook and ‘Pinterest’, when it comes to the ‘ethics, ownership and remixing culture’ (Newman, 2012). She got them to consider questions about the ownership of photos; the source they are from; whether the person actually says it; whether the person sharing it attempted to authorize them before even posting and sharing them on those social media networks and many more. The someecards Bobbi leisurely created, which are not accredited, and the picture of Abraham Lincoln were great demonstrations on how people nowadays, can easily make up something they may not in fact exist or not link to its original source.

I like the way Bobbi educated her audience to reflect upon the criteria of evaluating information and images by prompting questions as guidelines when talking about digital literacy. However, she would have achieved her outcome further if she focused on the provision of diplays on evaluating information and get the audience to use the images posted, as an exercise on the familiarity on evaluating and critiquing the deceived images.

Bibliography reference

Newman, B (2012), ‘On Remixing and Reshaping Online – I Do This for the Money, Prestige and Power. Said No Librarian Ever.’, Librarian by Day, blog post, 15^th August, viewed 5^th September 2012, available at: http://librarianbyday.net/2012/08/15/on-remixing-and-reshaing-online-i-do-this-for-the-money-prestige-and-power-said-no-librarian-ever/.