Network Literacy (Week 3)

Network literacy is, in a nutshell, being able to
participate as a peer within the emerging knowledge networks that are now the product
of the Internet, and to have as ‘deep’ an understanding of the logics or protocols of
these networks as we do of print. – Adrian Miles

Being Network Literate means to be able to link with individuals with the use of online resources. We are actively participating in this process unconsciously by acts of sharing post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.  like Adrian said, everything is weaved together like a blog post has various types of media on it but they all came from an individual source that I as the author of this post “weaved” it together by finding and putting it in a place and my blog post may become an individual source for another person and they’ll extract what is needed and weave it again. (come to think of it, it is called the internet for a reason. huh. lightbulb moment)

But i feel network literacy has a another simplified term which is know as Remix. Yeap, remix. I want to state that there is a difference between plagiarism and remixing as a copy cannot introduce anything new while a remixed artifact always brings in a new understanding. I feel that copyright laws is a wall that is blocking people from creative freedom. After all, media has been remediated all this while why try to stop it now?

Richard Dawkins on Memes and Genes and how they are actually similar. (it’s also about remixing)