Gurak, L. J. (2001). Cyberliteracy: Navigating the internet with awareness. New Haven Conn.; London: Yale University Press. Even in 2001 (when Cyberliteracy was published), the use of the internet for distance education was growing. Gurak addresses this point from sort of a media richness perspec...
Continue reading ...Gurak, L. J. (2001). Cyberliteracy: Navigating the internet with awareness. New Haven Conn.; London: Yale University Press. Beyond Reach and Speed, the features of anonymity and interactivity define cyberliteracy even more. Anonymity Anonymity refers to the fact that in most settings, we ca...
Continue reading ...Gurak, L. J. (2001). Cyberliteracy: Navigating the internet with awareness. New Haven Conn.; London: Yale University Press. In Chapter two of Cyberliteracy, Laura Gurak discusses speed, reach, anonymity, and interactivity, “[T]he functional units by which most Internet communication takes place...
Continue reading ...“To be cyberliterate means that we need to understand the relationship between our communication technologies and ourselves, our communities, and our cultures (16)." Gurak, L. J. (2001). Cyberliteracy: Navigating the internet with awareness. New Haven Conn.; London: Yale University Press. Gurak ...
Continue reading ...Gladwell, M. (2001). The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference: Abacus. This book is essentially an analysis of how/why certain trends take hold with public audiences and consumers, while others do not. The idea of The Tipping Point is based on Gladwell’s contention that an...
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