The digital communications technology that was once imagined as a universe of transparent and perpetual illumination, in which cancerous falsehoods would perish beneath a saturation bombardment of irradiating data, has instead generated a much murkier and verification-free habitat where a google-generated search will deliver an electronic page on which links to lies and lunacy appear [...]
Archive for the ‘Digital Citizenship’ Category
August 10, 2011
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A Leg Up on Information
By Jason W. Dean in Culture, Digital Citizenship, Technology
September 28, 2010
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How to Open a New Book
By Jason W. Dean in Books, Culture, Digital Citizenship, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Library, ReadingThis has been floating around the internet for a while, and I’d like to share with you some thoughts about the image and why it has such interest now. First, though, here’s the graphic:
July 28, 2010
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Digital Memory and Identity
By Jason W. Dean in Culture, Digital Citizenship, Librarianship, TechnologyJen recently shared this article from the New York Times with me: The Web Means the End of Forgetting, by Jeffrey Rosen I’ll be up front with you: this article really raised my ire. So if you will indulge me, good reader, let me share with you some of my thoughts (previously and briefly expressed [...]
July 22, 2010
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Make My Media Less Social!
By Jason W. Dean in Digital CitizenshipWhile browsing through my Evernote client earlier, I came upon an article featured in the New York Times: Managing Reputations on Social Sites, by Teddy Wayne I have many Facebook friends between the ages of 18 to 29 – as a matter of fact, I would say that that age group is the vast majority [...]
