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Media Literacy: Activities for independent communication via media in an information society, and the technologies and knowledge that support these activities (Source: digitalstorytelling)

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Inside this Media Literacy digest:

• Foreverism - Foreverism encompasses the many ways that consumers and businesses are embracing conversations, relationships, and products that are never done.
• Disaggregation of Higher Education - David Wiley draws a parallel between the disruption of the printing press on power structures of western society.
• Data Center Overload - As individuals become more distributed (think “clouds”) in data storage and social interactions, data centres become more important.
• Why Group Norms Kill Creativity - A homogeneous group is often not very effective at creativity. Individual diversity, connected, produces substantial advances.
• ED-MEDIA 2009 - It will be interesting to see how the increased use of social media will contribute to conference interactions, connections, and quality of participant experience
• Social Network Analysis: an Introduction - …a great introduction to many network concepts from Barry Wellman and Alexandra Marin.

Inside the Media Literacy digest, George Siemens ushers you into a fascinating journey to make sense of how new media technologies are changing how you work, learn and communicate..

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