Blog 3: Glister Summary

"The Nature of Digital Literacy"

Glister's article "The Nature of Digital Literacy" starts off with the means of how information traveled in the past. People who could afford them gained knowledge through books. This became more widespread with Johannes Guttenberg's invention of the printing press. Glister argues that the internet only helps further the power of printed material instead of taking over it by calling it "the double helix of the twenty-first century's intellectual revival". Glister feels that digital literacy is a way to contact other people who would either not connect in a quick manner or not connect at all. An example is how people respond sooner to e-mails rather than phone calls because it is easier and more convenient. He says that digital literacy can take things like print material, photos, and music and can condense all of it to store in less space than print can. Digital literacy takes print literacy to a more up to date level by understanding a wide variety of formats. Glister uses the idea of a paradigm to explain that people will shift their ideas about finding information in print materials and incorporate that with finding information on the internet.