RE: [ha-Safran]: Web literacy

2004-03-27 Thread Rettberg, Dan
Thanks, Alba, for a timely response. It might be noted that the three questions you list as appropriate to ask of a website are also the same basic questions a critical reader asks of a book. Of course, in the case of the third question, the reader must know how to "ask" the book the garden v

Re: [ha-Safran]: Web literacy

2004-03-25 Thread alba toscano
> In other words, "look, their scrambling for your attention in this way and that - it's not all necessarily a conspiracy - but you > should understand it, respect it, and know how to read between the lines.." I always quote J.K.Rowling in the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Se

RE: [ha-Safran]: Web literacy

2004-03-24 Thread Chaim Singer-Frankes
There is an organization called The Center for Media Literacy. http://www.medialit.org/default.html It was spearheaded by Sister Elizabeth Thoman. While infused with notions informed by religion and faith at least in some peripheral manner, their aim of media literacy was initially embodied in th