Internet

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Media literacy and the Internet: ALA's webinar series

Last week I attended another in ALA's Media Literacy webinar series. This session was titled, Media Literacy for Adults: Architecture of the Internet, and presented by Natasha Casey, Professor of Communications at Blackburn College. Her presentation was filled with information on how our digital environment functions, including cookies, algorithms, and questions to ask to start a discussion or program with library patrons.

The Gopher Project: Early Internet and U of M Libraries

The Gopher protocol, a.k.a., “The Gopher Project,” a University of Minnesota-developed information organization and transmission system (a precursor to today’s Internet), recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet.”