Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness - Softcover

Gurak, Laura J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300101570 ISBN 13: 9780300101577

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2003

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Book by Gurak Professor Laura J

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"Shooting her laserbeam intelligence at historical aspects of this relatively new rhetorical space, Laura Gurak sizzles here with deep insight and a vision of the cyberfuture. A must read. Soon to become a classic." Kathleen Ethel Welch, author of Electric Rhetoric "In this engaging book, social critic Laura Gurak looks past the boxes and wires of the Internet to explore the human side of the digital revolution." Katheleen Tyner, author of Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information

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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 J. Gurak takes a close look at the critical issues of online communication and discusses how to become literate in the new mass medium of our era. In cyberspace, Gurak shows us, literacy means much more than knowing how to read. Cyberliteracy means being able to sort fact from fiction, to detect extremism from reasonable debate, and to identify gender bias, commercialism, imitation, parody, and other aspects of written language that are problematic in online communication. Active reading skills are essential in cyberspace, where hoaxes abound, advertising masquerades as product information, privacy is often compromised, and web pages and e-mail messages distort the truth. Gurak analyzes the new language of the Internet, explaining how to prepare for its discourse and protect oneself from its hazards. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the impact of the Internet on the practices of reading and writing and on our culture in general.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300101570
• ISBN 13: 9780300101577
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206