Twitter Literacy

Para compreender o fenómeno do Twitter, vale a pena ler o texto de Howard Rheingold, Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it):

Returning to my use of the word literacy to describe both a set of skills for encoding and decoding as well as the community to which those skills provide entrance, I see that the use of Twitter to build personal learning networks, communities of practice, tuned information radars involves more than one literacy. The business about tuning and feeding, trust and reciprocity, and social capital is a form of network literacy. (...)

My students who learn about the presentation of self and construction of identity in the psychology and sociology literature see the theories they are reading come to life on the Twitter stage every day - an essential foundation for participatory media literacy.

(Via Ponto Media)