Network Literacy
- “being able to participate as a peer within the emerging knowledge networks that are now the product of the Internet, and to have as ‘deep’ an understanding of the logics or protocols of these networks as we do of print”
- Understanding general principles of the networks, as opposed to the intricacies of programming, therefore allowing you to use them successfully
- Content is distributed across the network and weaved together via protocols that allow communication
- “parts remain as parts at all times”
- We have access to each other’s material
- Sharing means that the distinction between consuming and creating content dissolves
RSS
- XML – standardises the publication of information
- RSS – syndication system based on XML – allows for the exchange of this information between different services
- Therefore different service can communicate with each other and
- RSS feeds
- “the ability to subscribe to content via RSS”
- syndicated, time sensitive, information that, when subscribed to, can be automatically published to your feed
- allows you to subscribe to a range of sites and information resources
- allows you to skim, bookmark and note what is of value
Tags
- a keyword that can be applied to anything in any social software system
- The end user defines the tag so individuals can tag the same material differently
- Folksonomy – the use of tags by an individual
- Tag clouds – the categories and relations that tags form
(Reading: Miles, Adrian. “Network Literacy: The New Path to Knowledge.” Screen Education Autumn.45 (2007): 24-30.)