Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices (original) (raw)

This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. Their essays explore a diverse range of the concepts, policies and practices of digital literacy, and discuss how digital literacy is related to similar ideas: information literacy, computer literacy, media literacy, functional literacy and digital competence. It is argued that in light of this diversity and complexity, it is useful to think of digital literaciesthe plural as well the singular. The first part of the book presents a rich mix of conceptual and policy perspectives; in the second part contributors explore social practices of digital remixing, blogging, online trading and social networking, and consider some legal issues associated with digital media.

Digital literacy and participation in online social networking spaces

2008

Purpose-specific social networking sites are an early runaway success story among Web 2.0 social software applications. Their rapid uptake around the world and the diverse and complex features associated with participating in social networking spaces mean discussion of digital literacy would be incomplete without addressing this dimension of everyday literacy practice. Here, we discuss participation in social networking spaces from the standpoint of a particular conception of literacies.

New literacies: Everyday practices and social learning

2011

“Like a compass guiding you to what's important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful and measured.” Daniel Cassany, Literacy Researcher and Teacher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain" Essential reading for those interested in new and emerging literacy practices, New Literacies maps the contours of on-and off-line participation and how it is transforming learning and communication.

Digital literacies: Policy, pedagogy and research considerations for education

2005

This paper is organized in four sections. The first section surveys typical examples of what we see as the prevailing approach to understanding 'digital literacy'–which we identify with what we call an 'It'perspective on digital literacy. We consider a range of 'conceptual definitions' and 'standardised operationalisations' of digital literacy, concluding that such accounts are informational,'truthcentric'and 'monolithic'in character.

Digital Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization

2007

By “remix” we mean the practice of taking cultural artefacts and combining and manipulating them into a new kind of creative blend. Until recently this concept was associated almost entirely with recorded music. It referred to using audio editing techniques to produce “an alternative mix of a recorded song that differed from the original, and involved taking apart the various instruments and components that make up a recording and remixing them into something that sounds completely different”(ethnomus. ucr.

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