Eshet-Alkalai

I read the Eshet-Alkalai article and it focused on the different forms of digital literacy that people who constantly interact with the digital world encounter frequently. Of all of the literacies that were discussed, I was quite intrigued by both the reproduction literacy and the socio-emotional literacy. On a large scale the idea of reproduction literacy is completely mind blowing to me when I think about the amount of information available to be copied, sent, forwarded, created, recreated, collected, etc. on the internet without the need for any paper at all. The possibilities are literally unlimited on the internet. The article discussed copyright and what is right for someone to claim as their own. This was an interesting idea. People can basically do whatever they want on the internet and they are essentially doing it in secret. It is not difficult to take other people's work in one click...and the battle over plagiarism has been made so easily accessible that the possiblilies are practically endless. The socio-emotional literacy was a completely new term to me. I found it interesting because I have always pondered the possibilities of trust when the entire globe is connected through the internet. No one has to tell the truth about anything-people do, but what makes something printed legitimate? How will we ever be COMPLETELY sure that what we are reading about is fact in the midst of millions of documentations saved to the world wide web? In the grand scheme of things both of these types of literacy have forced me to think of the internet in a way that I typically do not. It is so big with so many capabilities...and apparently so many forms of new literacy.