NL,+ch.+1

//New Literacies, ch. 1 notes//
//Literacy notions//
 * 1) Literacy = reading (and writing) -- pre-1970s
 * 2) Literacy as critical social awareness ([|Paolo Freire])
 * 3) Literacy as crisis (with a return to "basics" and "functional literacy") 1970s - present
 * 4) Literacy as socioculturally centered (and as a site of culture and power)

//Discourse v. discourse//
 * **D**iscourse: ways fo being in the world that integrate identities (through values, gestures, objects, actions, talk, clothing, body language, attitudes, spaces, tools, etc.)
 * **d**iscourse: actual examples of language use

//Levels of Literacy//
 * 1) Operational (language centered): discussed in terms of competence
 * 2) Cultural (meaning centered): grounded in meaning in context
 * 3) Critical (context and self-awareness centered): self-awareness of literacy as a constructed and value-laden affair; allows one to test, transform, or redefine Discourse boundaries

//[|Gee] on Literacy//
 * "powerful literacy": possessing control or fluency over primary and secondary Discourses (i.e., able to use the "right" language in the "right" way according to context
 * some social groups enjoy more power than others, and this is reflected in judgments of certain Discourses

//Digital Literacies//
 * 1) "keystroke" literacy: the ability to work different forms of technology
 * 2) "meanings" centered: solving problems; organizing, evaluating, and communicating information through technology

//"New" Literacies//: two ways to consider
 * "New tech stuff": the rise of post-typographic forms of text/text production and the changing social practices (in work, school, home, leisure, public, etc.) in producing, receiving, and exchanging (e-)texts.
 * "New ethos stuff": values participation, collaboration, distribution of expertise and knowledge over traditional publication processes, individual proprietary interests, and a limited expert class