NL,+ch.+3

New Literacies, ch. 3 notes

 * Concepts and Practices**

A working definition of "literacies":
 * socially recognized ways of generating, communicating, and negotiating meaningful content through the medium of encoded texts within contexts of participation in Discourses (or as members of Discourses)

"recognized ways": through goal-directed, socially developed practices (a "technology" + a knowledge + skill, e.g., letter-writing)

"meaningful content": articulation (outward sign) + interpretation (inward sign)
 * many ways of being in the world and feeling connected through shared interests
 * meanings //may not be understandable// to many outside the Discourse; insiders "get it" (e.g., spoof culture, certain memes, etc.)