Greg Beatty writes:We are not yet creating a fully shared definition, in large part because the people doing the work are still so close to it (and in many ways unrewarded for it) that they haven't really had a chance to step back, look around, and talk with one another. As a result, some shared definitions are being developed, but mainly in regions (or nodes, if you prefer to think of the Web in terms of rhizomatic spaces). I really don't see, for example, a shared sense of what constitutes a proper level of electronic literacy for a college graduate, and there is a tacit sense of such a definition, at least by levels of school. One can assume that a Harvard graduate can perform at this level of complexity, and that a graduate of the local state college has another level of skills. But online...there are no real shared standards or goals.