Further to an earlier post on the history of web literacy, I’ve just had an article published at DMLcentral. Entitled A Brief History of Web Literacy and its Future Potential, it weighs in at over 3,000 words – so you might want to sit down with a cup of coffee before starting to read it!

After doing some additional research on top of that I did for my thesis, I’ve identified five ‘eras’ of web literacy:

• 1993-1997: The Information Superhighway
• 1999-2002: The Wild West
• 2003-2007: The Web 2.0 era
• 2008-2012: The Era of the App
• 2013+: The Post-Snowden era

As I say in the article:

It’s worth noting that what follows is partial, incomplete, focused on the developed, western world, and only a first attempt. I’d be very grateful for comment, pushback, and pointers to other work in this area.

Click here to read the article in full at DMLcentral

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Questions? Comments? Please add them to the original article at the link above. Alternatively, email me: doug@mozillafoundation.org

http://literaci.es/brief-history-of-web-literacy