Bridging the Digital Divide

Author:  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) The “digital divide” – a term that refers to the gaps in access to information and communication technology (ICT) – threatens the ICT “have-nots”, whether...

Module 5: Information Online

Module 5: Information Online Introduction Since the dawn of the information age, people have been concerned about information overload, which is the stress people feel when they are exposed to so much information that it becomes impossible to think about it clearly....

Annotated Bibliography

Abel, Richard. The Gutenberg revolution :  A history of print culture. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers: 2011. Abel briefly recounts the ancient history of Western culture in order to show the profound impact of the Gutenberg printing press thereafter. Some time...

Module 1: A Very Brief History of Information

Module 1: A Very Brief History of Information Introduction The complex information ecosystem in which we find ourselves–in which public and private sources battle for control of policy, in which marketers and publishers compete for our attention, in which...