Is it true that, in this era of digitization and mass media, reading and writing are on the decline? In a thought-provoking collection of essays and profiles, 30 contributors explore what may instead be a rise in rhetorical activity, an upsurge due in part to the sudden blurring of the traditional roles of creator and audience in participatory media. This collection explores topics too often overlooked by traditional academic scholarship, though critical to an exploration of rhetoric and popular culture, including fan fiction, reality television, blogging, online role-playing games, and Fantasy Football. Both scholarly and engaging, this text draws rhetorical studies into the digital age.

Publisher McFarland & Co Inc Pub, 2010
ISBN 0786437200, 9780786437207

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Esta obra, “Web 2.0“, integrada en la Colección Fundación Orange, analiza la evolución que supone para Internet la llamada web participativa, a partir de la aparición de nuevas tecnologías que han propiciado un cambio radical en las rutinas y en la actitud de los usuarios a la hora de sumergir se en Internet.

Junto al libro se distribuye un “mapa” que refleja la realidad actual de la Web 2.0. en España y en el que, junto a los conceptos básicos que permiten entender este fenómeno, se identifican a las empresas pioneras en su desarrollo, agrupándolas según la naturaleza de su actividad. El mapa ha sido realizado por la empresa “Internality”.

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DMLcentral.net is the online presence for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub located at the systemwideUniversity of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another.

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O que é Twitter? Para que serve? Por que todo mundo só fala nele? Como fazer parte da tuitosfera? Essas dúvidas que muita gente tem, mas não sabia para quem perguntar, agora já podem ser respondidas. Elas estão no primeiro guia online sobre a ferramenta. “Tudo o que você precisa saber sobre Twitter (você já aprendeu em uma mesa de bar)” foi lançado pela Talk Interactive nesta segunda-feira (10/08) por meio do Twitter, é claro (http://www.twitter.com/lets_talk). O conteúdo ficará disponível na internet sob licença Creative Commons, permitindo que qualquer pessoa leia, repasse e ajude a atualizar o livro colaborativamente. Baixe o livro aqui .

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Public broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and network newscasts have all played a central role in our democracy, informing citizens and guiding public conversation. But the top-down dissemination technologies that supported them are being supplanted by an open, many-to-many networked media environment. What platforms, standards, and practices will replace or transform legacy public media.

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“Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking. These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom.”

• Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
• Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
• Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
• Appropriation – the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
• Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details
• Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
• Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
• Judgment – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
• Transmedia Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
• Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
• Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
• Visualization – the ability to interpret and create data representations for the purposes of expressing ideas, finding patterns, and identifying trends

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“The Mobile Learning Institute’s film series ‘A 21st Century Education’ profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. “A 21st Century Education” compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.”

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“This special issue of the International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) is focused on the theme of Adaptive Approaches to Mobile Learning. The significant growth of wireless technology in recent years, increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures, advances in mobile technologies and the popularity of handheld devices have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. The true potential of elearning as “anytime, anywhere” has finally begun to be realized in the form of m-learning, not only for those with disabilities or those living in remote communities, but also for those who have been attending traditional academia but could benefit from improved collaboration possibilities, situated learning opportunities and contextual learning.”

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The Web2Rights is a project is funded by The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

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