Mediacy: Knowledge and Skills To Navigate the Information Highway.

Carbo, Toni

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ERIC Number: EJ572246

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Mediacy: Knowledge and Skills To Navigate the Information Highway.

Carbo, Toni

International Information & Library Review, v29 n3-4 p393-401 Sep-Dec 1997

Knowledge of electronic media includes recognizing different needs for information, understanding and using different measures of value, and understanding ethical issues. Skills relate to retrieving, managing, organizing, using, preserving, and communicating information. These complex abilities are explored, earlier work is described, and pertinent issues addressed. (Author/AEF)

Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethics, Information Literacy, Information Management, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Information Technology, Internet, Online Searching, Online Systems, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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