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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Rheingold, Howard. Net smart. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011040573 (OCoLC)757838230 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Rheingold |
ISBN: | 9780262301497 0262301490 9781280498992 1280498994 9786613594228 6613594229 0262526131 9780262526135 0262300729 9780262300728 |
OCLC Number: | 780444621 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Why you need digital know-how, why we all need it -- Attention! Why and how to control your mind's most powerful instrument -- Crap detection 101: how to find what you need to know, and how to decide if it's true -- Participation power -- Social-digital know-how: the arts and sciences of collective intelligence -- Social has a shape: why networks matter -- How (using) the Web (mindfully) can make you smarter. |
Responsibility: | Howard Rheingold ; drawings by Anthony Weeks. |
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Abstract:
Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully. Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building. Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.
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