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Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

Mindful use of digital media means thinking about what we are doing, cultivating an ongoing inner inquiry into how we want to spend our time. Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us do this: attention, participation, collaboration, critical consumption of information (or "crap detection"), and network smarts. He explains how attention works, and how we can use our attention to focus on the tiny relevant portion of the incoming tsunami of information. He describes the quality of participation that empowers the best of the bloggers, netizens, tweeters, and other online community participants; he examines how successful online collaborative enterprises contribute new knowledge to the world in new ways; and he teaches us a lesson on networks and network building.

Rheingold points out that there is a bigger social issue at work in digital literacy, one that goes beyond personal empowerment. If we combine our individual efforts wisely, it could produce a more thoughtful society: countless small acts like publishing a Web page or sharing a link could add up to a public good that enriches everybody.

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The social media landscape changes quicker than you can say 'future shock.' As soon as you think you've mastered one network, another pops up, demanding its share of time and attention. Thank goodness, then, for Howard Rheingold. He has identified the skills -- simultaneously old-fashioned and cutting-edge -- that not only will help you thrive in this tumultuous world, but also help you shape social media into a force for good. Net Smart is a lifeboat for people who want to participate in new technologies without drowning in the flood.

(Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind)

A desperately needed and wonderfully written guide to being literate in today's digital, always-on world. This book is not just descriptive. It articulates a comprehensive set of social norms, practices and protocols that help us unleash the collective power of networked intelligence. And, yes, using the web mindfully can indeed make us smarter, as this book will illustrate. A must read for anyone wanting to thrive in today's increasingly connected world.

(John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corp and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; co-author of A New Culture of Learning )

Once again, Howard Rheingold has found a way of journeying into the future and coming back with gold. The questions he tackles here could not be more pertinent. Whether you're thrilled at the amazing potential for online collaboration, or just stressed by your email in-box, his insights on how to achieve a new form of digital literacy deserve wide adoption.

(Chris Anderson, Curator of TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design))

Education today is woefully inadequate. It's about teaching people information and skills as if we're alone and disconnected, stocking knowledge and tools in our brains. Today, it is important to learn how to find information and how to collaborate. Written in the traditionally smart and fun-to-read Rheingoldian style, Net Smart is the guide on how to think, learn, survive and thrive in the post-internet era. An essential guide and a must-read!

(Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab)

That Rheingold has written a smart and enjoyable guide is unsurprising....Rheingold does us an important service by offering a number of insights into, and strategies for, the 'net smarts' we need to function more efficiently in our increasingly online world.

(James Hendler Science)

Here, I'd point to the work of my friend Howard Rheingold and his new book Net Smart, which is an excellent guide for how to be a digitally fluent user of all the technologies we have available to us now. It's an excellent book and I think the FCC should include it in their plan for training the digital educators going into schools!

(Christopher Mims Technology Review)

If you are going to purchase one book about using social media, this is the one to read. It's for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives.

(Beth Kantor)

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Howard Rheingold, an influential writer and thinker on social media, is the author of Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (both published by the MIT Press), and Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Second Printing edition (March 16, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262017458
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262017459
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.81 x 9 inches

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Howard Rheingold is the author of:

Tools for Thought

The Virtual Community

Smart Mobs

Net Smart

Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind

Mind Amplifier

Was:

editor of Whole Earth Review

editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

founding executive editor of Hotwired

founder of Electric Minds

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Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall

2005, 2006, 2007 )

Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; UC Berkeley,

Spring 2008, 2009)

Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005)

Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )

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J. M. Raimondo

Necessary tools for the 21st century

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2012

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It's a pleasure to follow Howard Rheingold on this provocative journey into how best to make sense of the near-now through developing some new and distinct basic competencies. In a way the book is Howard's travelogue through his own cognitive atlas as he sagely builds a set of models for how to now only survive, but thrive in the face of ever-accelerating demands on attention and in the sheer volume of information encountered daily.
As Rheingold skillfully builds his case for acquiring a new set of tools with which to deal with information, he also introduces us to a plethora of experts across a broad swath of disciplines: IT, engineering, learning, cognitive science, and neuroscience to flesh out the concepts he's inventing to help himself make better sense of the world. At the same time, the book provides detailed step-by-step examples of how to implement the dashboard, Radars, agents, and sensors that Howard has arrayed to bring coherence and amenity to his own info-space.
At the book's heart is a key notion of Infotention-a neologism Rheingold coined, and which really sits at the middle of a radical proposition. Developing the cognitive capacity to effectively adopt a "mind-machine combination of brainpowered attention skills and computer-powered information filters" is a deceptively simple proposition with deep implications. Very little in most people's education provides them with the ability to effectively develop the mindset of focus and awareness that Infotention calls for.
Rheingold also brings a deep understanding of the underpinnings of the social platforms that have exploded on to the scene. The book explores deeply and from a variety of perspectives, how much we have learned about ourselves as social beings in the past quarter century, and how that knowledge can be used in association with social networks to develop a new and more self-aware society. At the same time the book acknowledges the concerns that arise when network platforms turn into surveillance tools. Rheingold makes the case for a balanced and aware approach, illustrating with his own humane approach to developing limits and guidelines for behaving in the social sphere.
Finally, the book provides a mind map for understanding how learning online is emerging as its own distinct discipline. Rheingold expounds holographically about how learning is being transformed by social affordances, by new understanding derived from neuroscience, and through the effort of brave teachers who are hacking education from within and without. With subtlety but also with a sense of urgency, Rheingold explores the ways in which the inherited understanding of and approaches to learning stand to be up-ended through the intervention of online means.

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Ken Homer

We All Need This Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2012

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Net Smart is a wonderfully informative book filled with deep wisdom and illuminating insights into how to live life both as a productive individual, as well as an effective global citizen in the online-mediated world of The 21st Century. Howard has done a fine job of weaving together numerous strands in the braid of meaning to craft a book that succeeds in providing a compelling narrative for context combined with practical advice for tactics.

Howard offers Five Literacies as a baseline requirement for anyone who interacts with computers, smart phones, tablets, social media and their related networks. A comprehensive understanding and clear explication of how we human beings have always and continue to co-evolve with our tools is exactly what one would expect from a man who was an Editor at The Whole Earth Review and who has spent the better part of 30 years living and researching life online.

I came away from this book with a much enlarged understanding of the roles that the internet, the worldwide web, social media, history, politics, personal responsibility and a sense of larger purpose are playing in the collective discovery of a future for humanity that will work for the majority of people on Earth - a prerequisite we'd all do well to recognize as necessary to ensure our species' survival. It is not yet a given that this is the path that we will collectively take.

I highly recommend this book for anyone with a curious mind, a feeling for history and a sense of purpose and adventure.

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fryjord

A good, kind of self-helpy introduction

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014

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I used this book in a social media course I'm teaching this semester. The book is a good introduction to digital media, and I think my students got a lot out of it. There's nothing really revolutionary or original in here, but I don't think that was Rheingold's intention. For someone looking for a less academic, though still well thought out, book on digital media, I recommend this work.

Oh, and it helps that Rheingold is a fun writer. He's been doing this for a long time, so it helped my students when he told stories about what it was like in the 70's and 80's. It gave him a lot of credibility and let me historically situate social media within larger historical trends.

The one problem I had with the book was the self help tone to it all. Rheingold is big on mindfulness, and it can be a little repetitive. I'm also not 100% sure why we need the term because it seems like a more complicated way to conceptualize "think about what you do".

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Wayne W.

Great insights from a pioneer in internetworking

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2013

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Howard Rheingold is renown for his insights and involvement in the use and social implications of emerging technology -especially in how networking facilitates interaction (especially the pervasive networking enabled by the internet) to the point of redefining what a community is. In this book he provides insights with lead to strategies and hints for how to participate and make the best use of social networking. Connecting with purpose, developing filters such as crap detection and working towards a Personal Learning Network (PLN) are offered as ways to not just cope with but to exploit the media to enrich your life and endeavors.

The only drawback for me was that Howardʻs writing style is liberally infused with new terminology -much of which seems created "on the fly". On the one hand, this is new territory covering an old topic (communication) so it warrants new terminology to catch the nuances of the change but I just found it slow reading at times and having to re-read sections to fully understand what he is getting at.

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TokyoKevin

Social awareness for technology, tech for social awareness

Reviewed in Japan on March 12, 2013

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I have been reading Rheingold since the 80's and he almost always hits the nail on the head. The focus on human use of technology is a theme that runs through his work. The integration of many of his ideas is in this book. The 5 Digital Literacies balance the inner and the outer person vis-a-vis tech. Written in his accessible folksy style, with lots of illustrating stories, it was a fun read on an important topic.

I am using this as a textbook for my class at the University of Tokyo this semester. I have highlighted the Kindle version, and get the students to use those highlights to get a handle on the topics. Mr. Rheingold even shared his Stanford curriculum for his course so I could adapt it.

patcsn

Very worthwhile and enjoyable read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 28, 2013

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Anyone who has anything to do with online communication, work or education is likely to find something of value in Howard Rheingold's recent book. Chapters are variable in terms of approach, content and topic but you can only be more informed after this reading. Plenty of practical tips on 'crap detection' and 'infotention' included. Good to see that such a pioneer who inspired many of us in the early pre-Web days of the Internet is still relevant and interesting.
(I am reading the Kindle version on my mini-iPad on the many train and bus journeys I am required to take - transport that often has free wifi - amazing how far tech enhanced and networked communication has come since the early days!).

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Chris Menzel

Wichtige Fähigkeit in der heutigen Zeit - Net Smart

Reviewed in Germany on September 10, 2012

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Das Buch ist eine äußerst hilfreiche Anleitung, wie man in der heutigen Welt der digitalen Informationsflut mit dieser umgeht und möglichst sinnvoll, zeitsparend, produktiv und achtsam in der digitalen Welt arbeiten, kooperieren und zusammen Dinge entwickeln kann (insbesondere auch im Lehrbereich).

Speziell das Kapitel über "Crap Detection" hat mir weiter die Augen geöffnet und die Notwendigkeit aufgezeigt, Kindern in der heutigen Welt schon früh den - richtigen - Umgang mit den Informationen im Internet zu zeigen.

Wir alle müssen "Internet-schlau" (net smart) sein bzw. werden, um aktiv das Medium zu unserem Vorteil und Nutzen - auch für andere - einzusetzen und nicht nur passiv damit umzugehen. Dieses Buch gibt dafür ausreichend Tipps und Gründe.

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Mycle

unconvincing

Reviewed in Germany on July 12, 2015

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To go again and again through the same motions of rules, propositions, etc how to 'behave' on the net is tiring. Most of us find our way anyway to detect the crap. Rheingold touches ever so slightly on the real calamity we obviously face: any new technology plays to the rules of their owners and controllers. All the information 'at your fingertips' didn't prevent (not just young) people to heartily throw themselves into a surveillance system of un-precedent dimensions. What did we think? That those with a very personal interest in controlling would miss the possibilities which the web offers?

JFB

une mine de connaissances

Reviewed in France on August 27, 2012

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Il y a presque trop de détalis et ce livre va me servir à l'avenir un peu comme un manuel que l'on doit avoir avec soi quand on travaille

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