- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; New edition edition (14 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0300101570
- ISBN-13: 978-0300101577
- Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm
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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
Rolf Norgaard, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Laura Gurak here captures the critical issues of cyberliteracy. Her argument for a critical, self-reflective, and activist cyberliteracy, adequate to our new technologies, deserves the wide audience she addresses."
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Great Guide for "Navigating the Internet with Awareness"
3 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
Cyberliteracy is, as its title might suggest, and as the author writes, "a rubric or a guide to literacy in cyberspace: a guide to cyberliteracy" (5). The book examines theories of literacy in light of the increase of computer mediated communication practices. Gurak argues that we need to develop a new cyberliteracy, one that will allow us not only to passively use computer technologies, but also to engage with them critically. Critical cyberliteracy involves understanding that artifacts have politics as well as understanding that users of technologies can also shape the future of technologies. Gurak writes: "Changes to our social spaces, our use of language, and our political and economic realities are ever more complex as the Internet becomes the mass communications medium of a new era" (4). Gurak's primary terms of analysis are speed, reach, anonymity, and interactivity, "the functional units by which most Internet communication takes place" (29). Each of these factors has changed dramatically as everyday life involves more and more computer mediated interactions. Understanding the implications of these four terms in relation to computer technologies forms the foundation of Gurak's proposed cyberliteracy.
Cyberliteracy is not simply the functional "computer literacy" that we are commonly sold these days. Critical cyberliteracy involves not only knowing how to use computer technologies; not only realizing that technologies have a politics; not only understanding that technologies embody choices, but also an ability to put these understandings to work for us. A critical cyberliteracy is all of these, and also the power to interpret information encountered in cyberspace. This means, as Gurak argues, being able to analytically engage with data online. Does a particular web page have a subtle (or not-so-subtle) bias? Are online communications affected by perceptions of gender, even though gender is difficult to determine online? Who perpetrates flame wars and hoaxes, and why? What about privacy, copyright, and the commercialization of the online commons? For students and academics, research methods and distance education have drastically changed, but to what effect? Gurak explores all of these questions in Cyberliteracy, and does so in a clear, readable manner. As a guide to cyberliteracy, this book is accessible, entertaining, and informative. The book is also extremely timely: more than half of the U.S. population now uses the Internet. It is time we develop the tools for "navigating the Internet with awareness," as the subtitle suggests. Gurak's book is a good place to start.
Berglund Center for Internet Studies Review by Jeffrey Barlow
11 May 2011
Format:Paperback
This book is very difficult to typify. At bottom, I think it intended to be a sort of survival manual, though the author might prefer that we view it as the McGuffey's reader of cyberspace. Its audience is the Internet user who can fully understand the postmodern voice and analysis, but who is too naïve to have already come to many if not most of Gurak's conclusions. It is definitely worth reading, but in part because it is a short work, quickly assimilated...
For a full review see Interface, Volume 3, Issue 8.
For a full review see Interface, Volume 3, Issue 8.
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