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" Digital dieting "
Tara Brabazon.
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BL
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590458
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b419677
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Brabazon, Tara.
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Digital dieting : from information obesity to intellectual fitness /\ Tara Brabazon.
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Farnham, Surrey, UK England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2013.
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1 online resource (viii, 333 pages)
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9781472409386
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: 1472409388
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: 9781472409393
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: 1472409396
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9781472409379
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147240937X
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Digital detox -- From information obesity to digital dieting -- Take the red pill: a new matrix of literacy -- Mayhem, magic, movement and methods: teaching and learning about hearing and listening -- Learning to leisure? When social media becomes educational media -- The iPad effect: conspicuous consumption and wasted learning -- Note to self: note taking and the control of information -- Dead media: know when to fold 'em-- know when to run -- Conclusion: Digital fitness.
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Without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. Digital Dieting: From information obesity to intellectual fitness probes the social, political and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, Digital Dieting provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal. Digital D.
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Information technology-- Management.
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Knowledge management.
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HD30.2.B687 2013eb
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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