Collaborative Literacy: Blogs and Internet Projects

Rearticulating Internet Literacy

As a simple explanation, Internet literacy is a capability constitutive to utilizing the advantages of the Internet. But, due to the constant changes of digital technologies, what kinds of necessary capabilities are required to gain the advantages? In fact, more than focusing on the essential capabilities to benefit users from the Internet advantages, existing perceptions of Internet literacy h...

Recommendation in Internet Forums and Blogs

The variety of engaging interactions among users in social medial distinguishes it from traditional Web media. Such a feature should be utilized while attempting to provide intelligent services to social media participants. In this article, we present a framework to recommend relevant information in Internet forums and blogs using user comments, one of the most representative of user behaviors ...

Measuring Collaborative Digital Literacy

Internet, Literacy and Earnings Inequality

The emergence of the knowledge society seems a main feature of developed economies at the start of the 21 century. There is no question that new information technologies (NIT) represent a source of wealth for a society taken as a whole. The question of the impact of these technologies on distribution issues, either at a national level or at an international one remains open. Newspapers, for ins...

Group blogs: Documenting collaborative drama processes

The use of blogging (online diaries), to support student learning and reflection has increasingly been adopted for assessment purposes in higher education. The relative ease of use and accessibility of the tools indicate that these social networking applications are, potentially, a convenient means of documenting and sharing individual student learning. There are relatively few instances, howev...