By Howard Rheingold
Like it or now not, realizing how one can utilize on-line instruments with out being overloaded with an excessive amount of details is an important factor to private luck within the twenty-first century. yet how will we use electronic media so they make us empowered individuals instead of passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded humans instead of multitasking basket situations? In Net Smart, cyberculture professional Howard Rheingold indicates us how you can use social media intelligently, humanely, and, certainly, mindfully.
Mindful use of electronic media capability puzzling over what we're doing, cultivating an ongoing internal inquiry into how we wish to spend our time. Rheingold outlines 5 primary electronic literacies, on-line abilities that may aid us do that: awareness, participation, collaboration, severe intake of knowledge (or "crap detection"), and community smarts. He explains how realization works, and the way we will be able to use our awareness to target the tiny correct component of the incoming tsunami of knowledge. He describes the standard of participation that empowers the simplest of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and different on-line neighborhood members; he examines how profitable on-line collaborative organisations give a contribution new wisdom to the realm in new methods; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and community development.
Rheingold issues out that there's a higher social factor at paintings in electronic literacy, person who is going past own empowerment. If we mix our person efforts properly, it could actually produce a extra considerate society: numerous small acts like publishing an internet web page or sharing a hyperlink may upload as much as a public stable that enriches everybody.
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Understanding how present-day PCs and networked media originated in the midtwentieth century establishes a good foundation for twenty-first-century skills; besides, it’s a fascinating story. ”39 These dreamers weren’t in the mainstream of the computer industry or computer science. 40 My own career as a writer and teacher was powerfully affected by encounters with some of the people who created the first PC and computermediated communication network. Before I ask you to take my word about what I’ve learned, I think you’ll benefit from hearing how I learned what I propose to teach you.
More than 5000 years ago, the first scribes hit upon an extraordinary potential deeply embedded in our brain circuits: the possibility of conveying language through vision. This initial idea was then perfected by generations of scribes. 12 Attention! 41 Mirror neurons might be basic to introspection as well as social behavior and learning. Running our own mental simulations of the future, the attentional process we will later learn to recognize as the “narrative network,” turns our ability to mentally rehearse something we’ve seen others do into a tool for controlling our own awareness.
I posed the last question to Clifford Nass, the often-quoted social psychologist who has an office two doors from mine at Stanford University. Nass was the principal author of a widely cited study that showed most media multitaskers to be worse than they thought at multitasking. 2 The most important thing I learned from Nass about mediated attention is that most media multitasking is actually task switching rapidly, not parallel processing, and this switching is more mentally costly than anybody thinks.