Art / Design / Science / Literacy
Literacy has many forms and art is one of the ways in which these forms come together and present some of the best opportunities for engaging diversity in complex social systems.
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Health Communication in the Age of Pamphlets
Although social media is all around us, there is a tendency to forget that it is still new and, in the case of public health, very new. What would / did our health communications system look like if it was designed for pamphlets instead of apps, door-to-door visits instead of Facebook, and libraries instead of websites? It might look a lot like today.
Read moreSocial Marketing/ Social Media Blowback And eHealth Communication Etiquette
An increase in well-intentioned health and education groups are violating the etiquette of social media by sending unsolicited emails to people and the blowback that comes from that might be enough to derail the good health communication messages to come.
Read moreLiteracy: The Real Reason to Celebrate the iPad
The iPad’s visual interface provides an opportunity to engage a whole group of people who are shut out of computing: namely those with low literacy levels. The ability to promote literacy and engagement may be true the killer app (delivery system).
Read moreThe Future of Social Media: Chaos / Coherence?
Some say we have too much information, while I say: we haven’t seen anything yet. What happens when the remaining 70% of those not using social media get engaged and what does that mean for sense-making?
Read moreLibraries, Literacy and the Learning Imperative
Libraries have an opportunity to advance literacy now as much as ever, but as some argue, the time has come to expand that mandate to helping people take the intellectual initiative.
Read moreThe Future of Electronic Communication is also the Past
The future of electronic communications may very well be tied to tools that enable adaptation and best share our narrative fragments, which is strangely the way we used to communicate.
Read moreComplexity and the Information Landscape
How to make sense of information in a complex learning environment and why is it important? If we think about climate change, pandemic flu and other serious issues, we may come to the conclusion that this is among the most important topics we can devote time to.
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