Skip to content

  • Community
    • Charlotte’s digital divide
    • Stories
    • Digital Inclusion Exchange podcast
    • Charlotte Digital Inclusion Alliance
  • Resources
    • Calendar
    • Field guide
    • The ‘Digital Divide’ and other definitions
    • Digital media literacy index
  • Digital Charlotte
    • About us
    • Contact us

Tag: digital literacy

  • List

Digital Inclusion Response Resources for COVID-19

(Updated 4/1/20) Affordable Internet Access ISP OFFERS — Digital Charlotte has created an open-source doc to track the updating COVID-19 Coronavirus response offerings made by Internet Service Providers across the nation. Keep track of new offers and share this info […]

  • Stories

Five Ways You Can Influence Digital Inclusion in Charlotte

What if you woke up and didn’t have your smartphone to check the latest Charlotte Agenda post, didn’t have Alexa to check the weather, didn’t have your laptop to finish a last-minute resume update or homework assignment. These are daily […]

Rachel Kubie, reference librarian in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
  • Local news
  • Stories

Reference librarians as superheroes: navigators in a precarious online world

At best, searching for reliable online information is precarious. At worst, it’s dangerous. A new breed of information superhero — the reference librarian — is a trained navigator of this new world.

Design huddle post-it-note exercise
  • Local news
  • Stories

A celebration of digital inclusion forecasts the future

Forty community leaders met in early June to brainstorm critical issues in digital inclusion, celebrate successes, and predict the future.

Maker Space at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library May 2019
  • Local news
  • News Briefs
  • Stories

Extending community access to technology at 3 Charlotte organizations

Behailu Academy, BLKTECHCLT, and the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library are extending community access to technology through a donation of 25 Apple iMac workstations from the Queens Knight School of Communication.

Queens students in a digital literacy program at Dillehay Courts, Charlotte, April 2019
  • Local news
  • Stories

Students learn small steps make a huge difference in digital literacy

One of the crowning experiences in the undergraduate careers of communication students at Queens University is a capstone course that, among other projects, places students in service learning opportunities in non-profit organizations.

Druid Hills neighborhood, Charlotte
  • Local news
  • Stories

How Druid Hills builds a stronger neighborhood

Investment in communication helps ensure that Druid Hills residents build relationships with neighbors and stay informed about new development.

Pineville Neighbors Place, North Carolina
  • Opinions
  • Viewpoint

What Charlotte may not understand about suburban poverty

Pineville is an example of a suburban city in which poverty often goes unseen. Digital tools can help create a solution.

Project LIFT - Teach Courageously
  • Local news
  • Stories

Project LIFT and the city gear up for Net Inclusion 2019

With Net Inclusion 2019 less than a month away, a dozen local Charlotte organizations are getting ready to showcase their work with digital inclusion and share their impact on the community.

  • Local news
  • Stories

Google Fiber hosts Queens students for celebration of community service

As 15 seniors in Queens’ Knight School of Communication prepared recently for capstone presentations on service projects in Mecklenburg County, they realized the experience had been transactional in a way they hadn’t expected. More than the usual give something, get something.

Davida Jackson, host of the Phone Wallet Keys Podcast in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 2018
  • Local news
  • Stories

Charlotte’s library wants to create more podcasters like Davida Jackson

In the hope of creating more Davida Jacksons, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library now make podcasting kits available for checkout.

Mary Pitkin, volunteer, Digital Charlotte, October 2018
  • Local news
  • Stories

Mary Pitkin is a giver, receiver, volunteer, and digital activist

Volunteering, often overlooked and ignored, benefits both the giver and receiver–and Mary Pitkin is a perfect example of why it’s such a great thing to do.

Jane Wester, David Boraks, and TJ Spry at Knight School of Communication, October 2018
  • Local news
  • Stories

Journalists discuss trust, self-editing, and talking heads

A panel of three Charlotte journalists discussed trust in the news media, self-editing, and talking heads in a “Coffee @ Knight” session on Oct. 10.

Posts navigation

Older posts

Enter your email to receive our news and updates

This form needs Javascript to display, which your browser doesn't support. Sign up here instead

Community

  • Charlotte’s digital divide
  • Stories
  • Digital Inclusion Exchange podcast
  • Charlotte Digital Inclusion Alliance

Resources

  • Calendar
  • Field guide
  • The ‘Digital Divide’ and other definitions
  • Digital media literacy index

Digital Charlotte

  • About us
  • Contact us
Knight Foundation

Supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Digital Charlotte is focused on empowering organizations to deliver digital inclusion resources in the Charlotte community.

Queens University

Digital Charlotte is a project of The James L. Knight School of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte: a private, co-ed, masters level university with a commitment to liberal arts and professional studies.

Digital Charlotte © 2021.
All rights reserved.

Website by Priceless Misc.