Literacies among today’s society are important to know and understand. Most people do not know them which is a part of the problem we face when dealing with media and networking today. For me personally, I could use some more knowledge on the network awareness literacy. Network awareness is important in the field I am looking to go in. Social media management requires understanding of networks and knowing how and why to use each one for specific reasons.
Of all of the literacies I believe network awareness is the most important for everyone to understand. I understand attention the most because I find myself picking and choosing the content I want to look at the most. People will skip through snaps or scroll through posts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to see the content that gains their attention the most. Everyone will witness that from personal experiences. Publishers need to know what to posts to seek attention as well. Attention requires the audience and the people posting to know what the interest is. I struggle with collaboration because of how dependent I have become on social media. Today we use it as a crutch and it makes it more difficult to reach out to others when incorporating content with another content. I think the article is still relevant today. Although it is almost a decade later, people still have not found out how to use media and networks to the best of their abilities. People still need to be educated on how to work these literacies to benefit them.
Understanding media and networks whether on a professional level or not will help people in the long run because media has become a part of everyday life. People are always using technology and we have all become dependent on it. I think Rheingold was pretty spot on with his literacies. He talks about all of the areas that are included into dealing with media. People need to know the proper way of handling it without serious conflicts. Rheingold’s literacies could apply to audiences that are searching for particular content that they feel relates to them. Audiences could also incorporate the literacies when trying to understand which content to focus on when it comes to authenticity or not.
