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Digital Dieting From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness
Author: Tara Brabazon
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: 2 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: 2 MB
Language: ENG
Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But 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.