Earlier time, people usually describe this term as the skills of using computer or other devices to access the Internet, locate information. This definition is not wrong, but nowadays, it might not precisely reflect on the meaning of network literacy anymore because of the incredibly rapid development of Internet communities. According to Adrian Miles’s opinion, the word network literacy (or literacies) now more relate to ‘recognising that content and its containers, whether web pages, blog posts, photos, video or any other media type, are distributed across the network, and that we weave these together very easily using simple protocols that were developed to allow ‘inter’ and ‘intra’ communication between different sorts of Internet services.'(Miles, 2007). In another word, the network literacies are not only the skills like how to post an article online, how to add your friends Facebook, but most importantly, the understanding and knowledge of how it allows us to do these things by few simple clicks. So in relation to my critical essay, I would argue from this angel, to explore and discuss the questions like how we as peers and most importantly, future media workers, will contribute to the literacies. especially on the media industry?
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