Net smart : how to thrive online / Howard Rheingold ; drawings by Anthony Weeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rheingold, Howard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Electronic information resources.

Social media.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2012]

Place of Publication:

2012.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.

ISBN:

9786613594228

9780262300728

0262300729

9781280498992

1280498994

9780262301497

0262301490

OCLC:

780444621