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shared by Louise Lee on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached

shared by Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen on 04 Jan 12 - No Cached

It isn’t possible or practical to try to control the quality of content and conversation that people publish online -- if it had been possible, there would be no web, no YouTube, no Wikipedia today -- but I contend that it is possible to increase the proportion of the population who know something about what they are doing when they consume or create digital culture.
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Although the word “literacy” traditionally refers to the skill of encoding and decoding messages or programs in some medium, the kind of literacy required in a world of mass collaboration necessarily involves a social element as well as a personal skill
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Social media literacies combine the skills of coding and decoding digital media with the social skills necessarily to use online tools in concert with others
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We will look at facets of each of these five literacies and engage in learning activities that can both increase our own competencies and provide public useful public goods
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shared by anonymous on 21 Aug 12 - No Cached

You are responsible for whoever else’s babble you are going to direct into your awareness.
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successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.
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If it isn’t fun, it won’t be useful. If you don’t put out, you don’t get back
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It’s about knowing how and knowing who and knowing who knows who knows what. Whatever you call this blend of craft and community, one of the most important challenges posed by the real-time, ubiquitous, wireless, always-on, often alienating interwebs are the skills required for the use of media to be productive and to foster authentic interpersonal connection, rather than waste of time and attention on phony, banal, alienated pseudo-communication. Know-how is where the difference lies.
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shared by wayupnorth on 01 Dec 11 - No Cached

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