Penang Institute Holds TechCamp 2020 to Raise Media Literacy in the Digital Age
By Sheryl Teoh
November 2020 FEATURE
IN 1998, The Rand Corporation, an American global policy think tank, published a paper on the parallels between the Printing Revolution and the Information Age from which emerged the digital revolution.1 The comparison was a reasonable one: both revolutions saw the democratisation of knowledge, facilitated by the mass production and distribution of information at a lower cost to the public; and both prompted social and scientific progress that would otherwise have been unimaginable. The paper also predicted the implications of...
Sheryl Teoh
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Linfield College, a liberal arts college in the United States, and majored in History with a focus on Classical Greece and Rome. Her interests include the study of philosophy as well as a range of humanities and socio-political issues.
