- I've Storified a few of the videos, blog posts, interviews about my 2012 book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online
NetsmartHow can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive consumers? In Net Smart, I show how t...- First, the 60 second video trailer.
- In May, 2012, I spoke about Net Smart at the Media Lab, followed by a conversation with Media Lab director, Joi Ito, and his sister, digital media and learning maestro Mimi Ito. The next link is to Media Lab's video of this event.
- Media Lab Conversations Series: Howard Rheingold | MIT Media LabCo-Presented with the MIT Press. How can we use digital media so that they help us become empowered participants rather than passive cons...
- Justin Ellis from Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, attended the Media Lab event and wrote this blog post, which has been widely cited.
Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skillsHoward Rheingold isn't too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of criticism...- In the summer of 2012, one of my heroes, Henry Jenkins, whose ideas were formative to my thinking about literacies, interviewed me via email. Our interview was published in three parts on Jenkins' blog.
How Did Howard Rheingold Get So "Net Smart": An Interview (Part One)Howard Rheingold has been one of the smartest, most forward thinking, most provocative writers about digital culture for the past several...
How Did Howard Rheingold Get So "Net Smart"?: An Interview (Part Two)I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension in 1981, then plugged my computer into my telephone in 1983 and got sucked i...
How Did Howard Rheingold Get So "Net Smart"?: An Interview (Part Three)You talk in the book about what you call "network knowledge." Can you define this concept? What kinds of things do you think the ordinary...- In May, 2012, instead of doing the standard author's talk at Google, I was interviewed by my daughter, Mamie Rheingold, works at Google:
