Perspectives in Digital Literacy/What is Digital Literacy?

"Digital Literacy: “[t]he capability to use digital technology and knowing when and how to use it.” --Mike Ribble, 'Passport to Digital Citizenship.'"Is the Internet the same as the World-Wide-Web? How does the online world work and how has it changed? What are some useful, proper, and safe ways to navigate it? What is my role in it?

This book intends to help you become better educated about the Internet and the World-Wide-Web. Thus our definition of “digital literacy” includes the capacity to decipher online media, how to behave and communicate properly in online environments, and how to manipulate online tools to create content on the Web.