Infotention is an emergent discipline and pedagogy dealing with the psychological, social, and technical skills and tools needed to navigate effectively online; a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information. Infotention is based on work developed by author, futurist, and educator Howard Rheingold.
Rheingold describes the core of the Infotention discipline as "...honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably. Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy."
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