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Cyberliteracy: Navigating The Internet With Awareness
The Internet has changed our social spaces, our political and social realities, our use of language, and the way we communicate, all with breathtaking speed. Almost everyone who deals with the Internet and the new world of cyberspace communication at times feels bewildered, dismayed, or even infuriated. In this clear and helpful book, computer communications scholar Laura ...more
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
October 11th 2003
by Yale University Press
(first published October 1st 2001)
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In Cyberliteracy (2001), Laura Gurak discusses cyberliteracy, by which she means "a set of concepts and critical views with which to understand today's Internet" (3), which involves not just use, but participation in and control of technology (11). She proposes that we understand Internet communication through the function terms of "speed, reach, anonymity, interactivity" (29). She later argues that the speech and reach of the Internet allows for "us to become wired and ...more
A good book to consider using for composition classes. It needs a new edition, though.
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