Net smart : how to thrive online / Howard Rheingold ; drawings by Anthony Weeks.

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The author of Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology explains how to use social media and other online tools intelligently and mindfully, elaborating on five main avenues for achieving this goal: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of informa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rheingold, Howard
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Internet > Social aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Electronic information resources.
Social media.
Digital media.
Physical Description:viii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Why you need digital know-how, why we all need it
  • Attention! Why and how to control your mind's most powerful instrument
  • Crap detection 101: how to find what you need to know, and how to decide if it's true
  • Participation power
  • Social-digital know-how: the arts and sciences of collective intelligence
  • Social has a shape: why networks matter
  • How (using) the web (mindfully) can make you smarter.