Blog 3

Glister's "Digital Literacy" is about past contributions in print and how they developed into the new technology. As an example mail to e-mail. Kinda like remediation, uses an older concept and making it appealing for technology. He goes on to say that digital networks support the power of print and it is intertwined with the internet's print. Digital Literacy is defined as the ability to inderstand and use information in multiple formats from a range of sorces when it is presented via computer. Glister also writes about digital exploration and how there are no consiquences. The Real world vs. digital world and how both socialize the user for different practices.

In Rhiengold's essay "Smart Mobs" he expains what smart mobs are and gives examples of some of this activity. He starts by explaining how the political leader Estrada was forced out of power through the actions of mass text messaging. "Generation text" was born from this event. I thought it was interested when the fall of Estrada was described as "in sense one might think of the crowd not as an effect of technology but as a kind of technology itself" As a crowd/community/network people can reach across social spaces that location can divide. I thought that the dating through text in Tokyo was interesting and might be something that we will eventually see in the united states one day. Looking up smart mob activity was interesting because we got to see events that have happened recently.

I think that my interest is still based on crime on the internet. I don't know much about it but I would like to find out more on this topic. I think that I could find some interesting stories related to crime on the net.