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Reviews Amazon.com With all the hyperbole being spouted off by people on both sides of the digital technology fence, Paul Gilster's intelligent, sobering look at the Internet is a breath of fresh air. Gilster is obviously a champion of the Internet, but he exhibits just enough skepticism in Digital Literacy to let you know he's hardly a knee-jerk apologist for the digerati. Digital literacy is defined as "a way of reading and understanding information that differs from what we do when we sit down to read a book or a newspaper." The book's goal is to provide a means of understanding the information we receive on our computers. After all, we're living in an era in which "if you can think it, it can be digitized." The book analyzes titles written by a couple of famous Luddites: The Gutenberg Elegies, by Sven Birkert, and Silicon Snake Oil, by Clifford Stoll. While acknowledging the validity of some of their arguments, Digital Literacy calmly refutes their challenges that the Internet and digital technology devalue human interaction and literacy. The author mixes personal experience with solid research to offer a clear- minded approach for evaluating content received from the Internet. Digital Literacy is a fascinating look at the world of cyberspace and a good corrective for anyone who is starry-eyed about the information they find online. --This text refers to the hardcover edition of of this title
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