Net Smart
The future of digital culture—yours, mine, and ours—depends on how well we learn to use the media that have infiltrated, amplified, distracted, enriched, and complicated our lives. How you employ a search engine, stream video from your phonecam, or update your Facebook status matters to you and everyone, because the ways people use new media in the first years of an emerging communication regime can influence the way those media end up being used and misused for decades to come. Instead of confining my exploration to whether or not Google is making us stupid, Facebook is commoditizing our privacy, or Twitter is chopping our attention into microslices (all good questions), I've been asking myself and others how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and above all mindfully. This book is about what I've learned.
Compendium of Podcasts Featuring Howard
November 13, 2022
Someone created this presumably updated compendium of podcasts featuring me, about cooperation, virtual communities, technology, learning, social media literacies.
Support Howard’s knowledge-sharing, art, discourse on Patreon
December 27, 2017
You can support me for $2, $5, $10, $25, or $100 per month and get rewards along with exclusive content: Howard’s Patreon Page Hi! I’m excited about Patreon because it gives me an opportunity and new incentives to engage, converse, co-learn, and co-create with my online public, which I started doing in 1985. I intend […]
The past futures of Howard Rheingold at the Institute for the Future
June 21, 2017
My art-making always has been a subconscious divination ritual that I’ve invoked in parallel with the rational techno-social forecasting I have done for fifty years. Institute for the Future was the perfect place to juxtapose my heretofore private art with my public future forecasting. It turns out that when you look at these twin strands […]
Crap Detection Mini-Course
February 20, 2013
Public Sphere In The Internet Age
February 20, 2013
Network Literacy Mini-Course
February 19, 2013
Recording of my Education 2.0 conversation with Steve Hargadon
April 5, 2012
Steve Hargadon is a great interviewer, and about 80 members of his active Classroom 2.0 community joined via text chat. The recording (use the player controls) includes audio, video, slides, and text chat. You will be asked to allow the download and launch of a Java applet, then use the player controls to play the […]
Net Smart Video and Podcast
April 3, 2012
The video from my Net Smart presentation to New Media Consortium just became available, as did the MIT Press Podcast.
Why “Net Smart?”
January 29, 2012
Digital media and networked publics have emerged so quickly and broadly that our minds, relationships, and societies changed before anyone could get a handle on how they are changing. More recently, both empirical studies and works of criticism have begun to question the trade-offs involved in the transition to an always-on world. Criticism is necessary, […]
