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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

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Media studies

• Full title: Net Smart
• Author: Howard Rheingold
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780262526135
• ISBN: 0262526131
• ID: 02467795
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 462 g
• Dimensions: 227 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. February 2014

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