Digital Literacy - Hardcover

Gilster, Paul

 
9780471165200: Digital Literacy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0471165204 ISBN 13: 9780471165200
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Now in paper! Somewhere within the flood of online information there is a creative universe just for everyone. This book helps readers find it. Though the Internet is easier than ever to use, the means of information sharing that it involves require a whole new mindset. Digital Literacy provides Internet novices with the basic thinking skills and core competencies they'll need to thrive in this interactive environment. Readers discover how to choose the right Internet or non-Internet information source for a particular need, how to use the Internet as a tool for lifelong learning, career development and more.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

PAUL GILSTER is a professional writer who discovered the power and potential of the Internet early on. He has shared his insight, bringing the everyman's view of the technology to users around the world. He is the author of the bestselling The Internet Navigator and Finding It on the Internet, both from Wiley. 17 02 digital literacy The thinking and survival skills new users need to make the Internet personally and professionally meaningful. The Internet is fast becoming the newest segment of popular media. It?s called upon by millions as naturally as the telephone or the television. Yet, though the Internet is easier than ever to use, the means of information sharing that it involves require a whole new mindset. Without these new thinking skills?what Paul Gilster calls digital literacy?the benefits of this exciting medium may be diminished or lost. Digital Literacy isn?t a book about how to get around the Internet. That ground has been amply covered. Digital Literacy provides Internet novices with the basic thinking skills and core competencies they?ll need to thrive in an interactive environment so fundamentally different from passive media such as television or print. Digital Literacy shows you how to evaluate sources of information found in news groups, bulletin boards, and other online sources. It demonstrates how to focus search strategies and it leads you through the new rhetorical tools of hypertext and hypermedia, in which you literally chart your own path through vast pools of information, gathering and deleting ideas as you go. Paul Gilster also addresses other issues shaping activity on the Internet, including the copyright issues of online information. Ulimately, you learn how to customize the Internet for maximum benefit as both a professional resource?scoping out the competition or the latest stock trends?or for personal education or entertainment?looking up the weather, attending a lecture, or even taking a trip to a virtual world. The Internet opens infinite doors to you. Armed with the digital literacy skills presented here, you can now take full advantage of this incredible universe.

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digital literacy The thinking and survival skills new users need to make the Internet personally and professionally meaningful. The Internet is fast becoming the newest segment of popular media. It?s called upon by millions as naturally as the telephone or the television. Yet, though the Internet is easier than ever to use, the means of information sharing that it involves require a whole new mindset. Without these new thinking skills?what Paul Gilster calls digital literacy?the benefits of this exciting medium may be diminished or lost. Digital Literacy isn?t a book about how to get around the Internet. That ground has been amply covered. Digital Literacy provides Internet novices with the basic thinking skills and core competencies they?ll need to thrive in an interactive environment so fundamentally different from passive media such as television or print. Digital Literacy shows you how to evaluate sources of information found in news groups, bulletin boards, and other online sources. It demonstrates how to focus search strategies and it leads you through the new rhetorical tools of hypertext and hypermedia, in which you literally chart your own path through vast pools of information, gathering and deleting ideas as you go. Paul Gilster also addresses other issues shaping activity on the Internet, including the copyright issues of online information. Ulimately, you learn how to customize the Internet for maximum benefit as both a professional resource?scoping out the competition or the latest stock trends?or for personal education or entertainment?looking up the weather, attending a lecture, or even taking a trip to a virtual world. The Internet opens infinite doors to you. Armed with the digital literacy skills presented here, you can now take full advantage of this incredible universe.

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digital literacy The thinking and survival skills new users need to make the Internet personally and professionally meaningful. The Internet is fast becoming the newest segment of popular media. It?s called upon by millions as naturally as the telephone or the television. Yet, though the Internet is easier than ever to use, the means of information sharing that it involves require a whole new mindset. Without these new thinking skills?what Paul Gilster calls digital literacy?the benefits of this exciting medium may be diminished or lost. Digital Literacy isn?t a book about how to get around the Internet. That ground has been amply covered. Digital Literacy provides Internet novices with the basic thinking skills and core competencies they?ll need to thrive in an interactive environment so fundamentally different from passive media such as television or print. Digital Literacy shows you how to evaluate sources of information found in news groups, bulletin boards, and other online sources. It demonstrates how to focus search strategies and it leads you through the new rhetorical tools of hypertext and hypermedia, in which you literally chart your own path through vast pools of information, gathering and deleting ideas as you go. Paul Gilster also addresses other issues shaping activity on the Internet, including the copyright issues of online information. Ulimately, you learn how to customize the Internet for maximum benefit as both a professional resource?scoping out the competition or the latest stock trends?or for personal education or entertainment?looking up the weather, attending a lecture, or even taking a trip to a virtual world. The Internet opens infinite doors to you. Armed with the digital literacy skills presented here, you can now take full advantage of this incredible universe.

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0471165204
ISBN 13 
9780471165200
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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