Digital literacy is the ability to access networked computer resources and use them. It is also the ability to understand what we have been taught or have learned in other ways from many sources. I'm going to be honest, I feel that the first chapter is very boring. In a book I really do not want to read a bunch of definitions which is what a lot of the context is. Mr. Gilster gives us a lot of useless facts and not much insight or examples to the internet which is mainly how I learn things. He does use such words as hypermedia and hypertext which computer illiterate people may not understand. I would think that if you are targeting a book to an audience that needs help with today's internet that you would make clear the words that relate to it so they could follow along.