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GENERAL PRINCIPLES IN MEDIA LITERACY
We know about the world primarily from the media. But the media don't simply give us the world. They interpret reality, tailor it, perform it. In order to be responsible citizens, we need to be media literate. To help you engage in that process, here are eight "key concepts" of media literacy.
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Mediactive is an ebook by Dan Gillmor
At the risk of being too cute, I’ve mashed together two words— media and active—that describe my goal in this book, website and accompanying materials: I want to help you become mediactive.
At the very least, the payoff is that you’ll be able to navigate the rapids, to better sort what you read (view, hear, etc.). If you’re like most people, you’ve been mostly a passive consumer of media, and I want to help you to become comfortable as an active user. I want to help you minimize the chances that you’ll get bamboozled, or worse, by the incorrect or misleading material that’s all over the Internet (and, all too often, in what people call “mainstream media”), and to help you find trustworthy material instead.
Being media literate underpins network literacy. As we interact with and get information from more individuals, some of whom we are only tangentially connected to, a critical eye is necessary. We no longer go through "trusted" gatekeepers who will vet all information for us - we need to take that responsibility upon ourselves.
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Lessons from Harvard vs M.I.T. - Center for Creative Leadership
Kleon suggests that we all hold back our work for too long, waiting until it is polished and perfect and presentable to the world. But the truth is, people learn just as much from the process you use to do your work and the lessons you learn along on the way.
Working out loud requires being vulnerable, because it means admitting you don't have all the answers. What might happen if you work out loud and someone else realizes that you are going about it all wrong? Hopefully, they let you know a better way, and you can learn, as a result.
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Commonwealth Club
His leadership credits during his 34-year career include serving as a four-star general, former leader of the Joint Special Operations Committee and a former Green Beret. Come hear him speak about leadership in our changing world.
The military is often thought of as the quintessential hierarchical organization. In this presentation to the Commonwealth Club of California, General Stanley McChrystal (Retired) talks about transforming his command into a team of teams or network, and why a rigid hierarchy is incompatible with todays complex environment.
If the military can recognize the problem and undergo such a transformation, why can't many other organizations?
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Are You Facing a Problem? Or a Polarity? - Center for Creative Leadership
A problem is something that can have a right — or best — answer; a solution exists. But a polarity is a dilemma that is ongoing, unsolvable and contains seemingly opposing ideas. We usually think of them in adversarial terms: growth vs. consolidation; short term vs. long term, innovation vs. efficiency, centralization vs. decentralization, change vs. stability.
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“A polarity is a pair of interdependent opposites — if you focus on one of those to the neglect or exclusion of the other, at some point in time you dip into negative unintended consequences,” he explains.
Too often we force people to choose sides, as if only one decision is the right one.
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In social networks, group boundaries promote the spread of ideas, study finds
But when group boundaries are eliminated entirely, people have almost nothing in common with their neighbors and therefore very little influence over one another, making it impossible to spread complex ideas.
Data Visualization Requires Storytelling! | T N T : The Network Thinkers - http:/
Network Leadership - http:/
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Knoco stories: Data, Information, Knowledge - a Marketing example.
In large organisations, and in organisations where people work in teams and networks, knowledge and know-how are increasingly being seen as a communal possession, rather than an individual possession.
This model, linking data, information, and knowledge, illustrates the challenge of the big-data hype. Without the knowledge, or know-how, to interpret the information that results from the data, it's worthless. Add to it that common knowledge is often wrong, or at least not useful, and you have an even bigger problem.
Diverse networks offer the possibility to get beyond the common knowledge and connect with people that have unique knowledge that you can apply. Finding the knowledge at the edge offers the best hope of actually making innovative use of information.
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The Role of Social Power inside Organisations | simply communicate
Power can't be measured in the absolute, but only in its effects. This is why it's relatively easy to look at an organisation’s hierarchical chart and understand where structural power may lie. Until recently it was near impossible to do this for social power. However, organisational network analysis gives managers the ability to understand where social power sits within their organisation.
Understanding the difference between the hierarchical organization and the network.
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