Net Smart: How to Thrive Online Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Introduction: Why You Need Digital Know-How—Why We All Need It....................1
1 Attention! Why and How to Control Your Mind's Most Powerful Instrument....................35
Conscious Distraction: Are You Captain or Captive of Your Attention Muscles?....................41
(Using) the Internet Makes Us Stupid (or Not)....................50
Mindfulness in an Always-On World....................62
Training the Puppy Mind....................70
How to Search and How to Know....................84
Tuning Your Crap Detector....................89
Infotention: Attention to Information....................96
3 Participation Power....................111
Participatory Culture....................114
Participation Skills: Skating up the Power Law of Participation....................119
Curation Is Short for "We're All Each Other's Filter"....................126
Playbor: Do You Know Who Profits from Your Participation?....................134
Footprints and Profiles: How You Look to Others ... and Yourself....................138
Twitter Literacy....................141
4 Social-Digital Know-How: The Arts and Sciences of Collective Intelligence....................147
Collective Intelligence: When All of Us Can Be Smarter Than Any of Us....................159
Virtual Communities: Networking Hearts as well as Minds....................162
Crowdsourcing: Supersizing Cooperation....................167
Social Production....................173
Wiki Collaboration....................179
5 Social Has a Shape: Why Networks Matter....................191
Social Network Analysis....................202
Networked Individualism....................211
Social Capital....................215
Tuning and Feeding Personal Learning Networks....................225
Facing Facebook's Facts of Life....................230
6 How (Using) the Web (Mindfully) Can Make You Smarter....................239
Digging into Dataveillance....................239
The Public Sphere....................240
Remix Ethics and the Politics of Enclosure....................242
What's a Parent to Do? What's a Parent to Know?....................245
Five Literacies in a Nutshell....................246
Literacy as Lever, as Divide....................252
Notes....................255
Index....................289