Gourlay, Lesley

Hamilton, Mary

Lea, Mary

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   Textual Practices in the New Media Digital Landscape:  Messing with Digital Literacies    Lesley Gourlay, Mary Hamilton and Mary R. Lea   to appear in Special issue of the Journal of Research in Learning Technology on ‘Digital Literacies’   Outline for today’s webinar: Linking literacies, learning and technologies   New Literacy Studies (NLS) and the digital landscape for learning   Theory and Pragmatics in educational research and practice   Academic literacies, learning and technologies  Talking past one other?   Digital Literacies’: ambiguous and infinitely elastic?    Implications and future directions – a new approach?  What is meant by “The New Literacy Studies”   asserts that multiple literacies exist  has an historical sensibility  emphasises informal learning in everyday practices embedded in networks of support   attends to the textual and semiotic aspects of learning  uses ethnographic methodologies  takes an ecological approach   Limitations of the  New Literacy Studies approach  strongly rooted in linguistics and social semiotics  a tendency to ‘bracket off’ materiality  tends to pay less attention to the virtual spaces of digital media than to practices involving printed texts    Theory And Pragmatics In Educational Research And Practice  The fields of literacy and of learning technology both  exist in a policy climate that places high value upon more pragmatic orientations towards knowledge and learning. In many respects this orientation contrasts markedly with critical approaches such as that of the NLS with its concern with power and authority around textual practice. Academic Literacies, & Learning Technologies    Emergence at particular historical moments   Connections and Overlaps   Contrasts and Contradictions Talking past one another  Academic literacies slow to respond to digital landscape   Learning technologies lack of recognition of the importance of textual practice Implications And Future Directions Do We Need A New Approach?  Has the concept of  ‘literacies’ lost its ethnographic and disruptive edge through its complex re-emergence and co-option in the messy term ‘digital literacies?   Digital literacies frameworks   Qualities, skills, attributes?  The idealised ‘user’   Need to return to situated practice   Danger of deficit models  Actor-network theory    Compatible with NLS  Posthumanism  Nonhuman actors   Away from individual social actors   A comparative media studies     how digital and print traditions of communication intersect in practice (e.g. Hayles)  dispersed alliances of people, machines, texts and software tools configured by learning institutions (Orlikowski)     In conclusion ……     It is important to find spaces to make visible the embedded and implicit understandings, assumptions and ideological positions that are carried by terms such as literacy/ digital/ network.   

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