Digital Literacy in Our Age: A Manifesto

A reflective manifesto on navigating digital literacy, data storytelling, and AI-assisted thinking in a fast-evolving world. A personal journey of learning, humility, and curiosity at the intersection of human and machine.

Digital Literacy in Our Age: A Manifesto
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Becoming a Data Evangelist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

I embark on this journal as both a student and an explorer of our evolving digital landscape. These pages will document my journey through the territories of data analysis, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO) — not as a master, but as a persistent cartographer mapping unfamiliar terrain.

Although English is not my native language, I embrace this constraint. My words will be supported by artificial intelligence collaborators, making this journal itself a testament to the very technologies I seek to understand. This symbiotic relationship between human intuition and machine assistance forms the cornerstone of modern digital literacy.

My purpose is threefold:
1. To document experiments and insights that bridge theory and practice, forming a living archive of applied digital knowledge.
2. To cultivate a mindset that sees data not merely as numbers, but as narratives — stories waiting to be discovered and shared. This, to me, is the true essence of data evangelism.
3. To maintain intellectual humility in a field where yesterday’s innovations become today’s foundations, and where learning never truly ends.

I reject both techno-utopianism and digital fatalism. Instead, I commit to a balanced perspective — one that recognises both the transformative power and the inherent limitations of our tools.

This journal begins not with answers, but with a question:
How might we navigate the expanding intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence with wisdom, purpose, and humanity?

The journey begins now.