The future of the image
on January 29, 2011
If I speak here of design, it is not as an art historian or a philosopher of technique. I am neither. What interests me is the way in which, by drawing lines, arranging words or distributing surfaces, one also designs divisions of communal space. It is the way in which, by assembling words or forms, [...]
literacy and power — Hilary Janks
on January 29, 2011
Janks, Hilary. Literacy and Power NY: Routledge, 2010 In common usage, literacy is understood to be the ability to read and write and was ‘formed as an antithesis to illiteracy’ in 1883 (OED department, 1980). More recently, literacy has been defined as a social practice. The notion of a literacy practice implies patterned and conventional [...]
literacy in the digital age
on December 18, 2010
Burniske, R. W. Literacy in the Digital Age. THousand Oaks: Corwin/sage, 2008 2nd edition (first in 2000) may prove helpful to think of literacy in terms of taxonomy. THe unctional literacy required to read nad write letters of an alphabet, and sound the words they form, serves as a stepping stone to more complex types [...]
literacies across media
on December 18, 2010
Mackey, Margaret. Literacies across Media: Playing the Text. New York: Routledge, 2002 and 2007 second edition. the word ‘reading’ has always incorporated a number of complicated meanings, from teh decoding of the alphabet, to the interpretation of complex instructions and descriptions, to the evelopment of entranced absorption in the fictional universe. Not so long ago, [...]
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