Isn't this in the opposite direction of where the world has been going? Why did the Vatican change from delivery of the mass from Latin into the vernacular? Why did colleges, long ago, abandon the need for humanities students to read in Latin and Greek? Who operates a t.v. without a remote? or a garage door? Who wants to give up cash machines on every corner? Quit micro-waved popcorn? Sad as a lot of this is, the fact is we live in a nonosecond world that rarely undertakes *any* hard work without a direct relationship to their paycheck.
I share Steve Eskow's worries about a society not underpinned with people who have good reading and writing skills; one that is already chilly to the merits of civic responsibility,
I don't see many of them jumping to learn RSS.
At 12:03 PM -0500 1/21/05, Andy Carvin wrote:
Dan Gillmor at the Berkman blogger confab today just made the comment that the public will have to learn to do "a little more work" if they want to stay informed. "It's not just going to show up on their doorstep" the way it used to be, he said. It takes more effort to stay informed now, he noted. So what can we do to streamline the process?
Sounds like RSS feeds will be one of the next major ICT literacy challenges for the general public, particularly when only five percent of people on the Net use RSS and they tend to be white, well-off, and very well educated, according to the folks at Pew. It will take this particular technology literacy (RSS savviness) for people to achieve media literacy and be well-informed as more journalism and civic discourse is produced for the Internet rather than broadcast or print.... -ac
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