A good talk - recreated as an essay - from Howard Rheingold on the subject of new media literacy and participative learning. After some comments on the need to people to be able to assess online materials, Rheingold looks at the power of these users to organize themselves, giving examples from OhMyNews in Korea. Most interestingly, he describes how the internet can help each person develop a distinctive "voice" and how this voice becomes the "fundamental particle" of public opinion. The exercise of new media literacies therefore becomes the exercise of this public voice, which is why teaching new media literacies required participative learning.
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