If a society is not at the height of the evolving technolgical innovation, it falls downward. This is the message that can be gathered from several prominent articles of Corriere della Sera these days, one of them based on a recent book of leading Italian linguist Tullio De Mauro. See the Italian version or pester me for details.

1 Resources

• Giovanni Sartori @ Corriere 2010-03-22: Homo Videns e Homo Zappiens – Sconessi e Somari
• Torno @ Corriere 20010-03-22: Capitalismo in Crisi: Colpa della Tecnica
• Mihai Nadin: The Civilisation of Illiteracy
• At the beginning of this year a Corriere editorialist remarked that while people are getting better and better at clicking Facebook they are knowing less and less of the basics of data processing.
• Jaime D’Alessandro @ Reppublica 2010-03-25: se la generazione web legge più degli adulti – Sorpresa. I ragazzi di oggi, quelli compresi fra i 6 e i 17 anni, leggono molto più della media nazionale.
• Massimo Gaggi @ Corriere 2010-03-27: Attenti a Internet, ci fa perdere la concentrazione e la memoria – L’allarme di Nicholas Carr contro la dittatura della Rete. Il suo saggio divide l’America
• Visualisation can be a form of literacy which extends and deepens our means of understanding and communicating.
  • Edward Tufte‘s work in this regard is quite astonishing.
  • Lev Manovich should also be considered.
  • Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds gives practical advice.
• Relevance for EU Council “Conclusions of 22 May 2008 on a European approach to media literacy in the digital environment” and its “Conclusions of 27 November 2009 on media literacy in the digital environment”?