1. Digital identity and wellbeing

Chapter overview

This chapter covers understanding the benefits and risks involved with digital participation, primarily in relation to one’s health and wellbeing.

Topics include:

Balancing work and life: How to support yourself and others to develop safe and responsible digital practices when using technology.

Digital presence and managing your digital reputation: Advice on maintaining a positive digital identity by communicating with respect, displaying critical thinking, and maintaining confidence and good judgment in a digital environment.

Ethical digital data and information: How to collect, evaluate and manage information in a digital landscape; learn how algorithms work; how personal data may be collected; and how digital media can be used as a social, political and educational tool.