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. © 2016 International Literacy Association

6-Adult Intergenerational literacy < Family literacy Critical literacy < Theoretical perspectives Critical analysis < Digital/media literacies Visual literacy < Digital/media literacies Socioeconomic factors < Family literacy Parental involvement < Family literacy Action research, teacher research < Research methodology Community-based programs, resources < Family literacy

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