Considering you are reading this on some form of technology, I would say that this concept is extremely significant in the 21st century. Just waking up from the alarm on my phone, checking my twitter, and clicking on my computer to do this blog, I began to think about technology, including how digital literacy has truly become a part of my world. I do feel that it will continue to help our world grow and development too. After reading Rhinegold's very in depth introduction titled "Why you need digital literacy-how we all need it", I was able to look deeper into his viewpoint on digital literacy , think more about my thoughts and feelings about it. I noticed that Rhinegold quotes in the start of his introduction that , "I believe that learning to live mindfully in cyber culture is as important to us as a civilization as it is vital to you and me as individuals. '(1) This is one of his insightful outlooks in terms of digital literacy that struck out to me about how he feels that individuals need to look on websites that will benefit them only. Going along with this a little, people in today's society are constantly preoccupied in their technology so they won't fall behind on importrant things in life (such as the example with his daughter.) However, people still need to be aware of how much technology is taking over there lives because it effects their attention according to the author.Take the "Me Too Movement" for example. Individuals were using twitter in a positive way to empower females. This is a mindful and correct way to look into digital literacies, rather then watching pointless youtube videos of people eating. It seems to Rhinegold that digital literacy is something powerful in our society to learn things through ourselves and others, such as my cell phone that is always by me to look up information. Five process are currently "changing the world", and these include attention, participation, coloration, the critical consumption of information (crap-detection), and network smarts, and these can improve our world. What I began to think about while reading this was if we are mindfully aware of what we are doing with digital literacies in different venues, then an empowered society can develop from us connecting in an effective way. Looking through the pages of this introduction, I came across multiple passages that stood out to me personally, but I wanted to address this one to my own life: "Today's digital literacies can make the difference between being empowered or manipulated,serine or frenetic. Most important, as people who are trying to get along day to day in a hyper scale, warp -speed civilization that seems so often to be beyond anyone's control, digital literacy is something powerful we can learn as well as exercise for ourselves and each other.'" (3) For example, in my own personal life, I do struggle quite a lot with anxiety on a daily basis. YouTube has been a powerful source that has helped me to strive with this problem that I deal with. The youtuber that I always search for is Laurdiy. Instead of manipulating and making me feel negative about my anxiety, this influencer who has 7.1 million subscribers has empowered me to feel better about myself. She does this because she always makes videos and tweets sometimes about her struggle with anxiety, and it makes me feel better about what I deal with as a whole. Having this youtuber express herself in a strong way allows me to connect with others who are going through the same things I am through the online world. I also look at the other people's comments and comment on them sometimes to learn about strategies to overcome my anxiety. Learning more into the importance of digital literacy in a better way will allow myself and others to have a better outlook on how to deal with the stress of anxiety in an effective way. I feel that I can be a part of an empowered society/making my life better (like in Rhinegold's eyes) rather than an uncontrollled one when I use digital literacies from this manner. Paying attention to digital literacy in the right way is helping me to become a better individual in today's 21st century.
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