The Uses of Digital Literacy

ISBN-10: 135130206X
ISBN-13: 9781351302067
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages: 253
Language: English
Published: 2017-07-28
Publisher: Routledge
Author: John Hartley

Description

At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to be rethought as action not behavior, and media consumption as a mode of literacy. Online social networks and participatory media are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and banned in schools. But the potential of digital literacy should not be underestimated. Fifty years after Richard Hoggart's pioneering The Uses of Literacy reshaped the educational response to popular culture, John Hartley extends Hoggart's argument into digital media. Media evolution has made possible the realism of the modern age journalism, the novel and science not to mention mass entertainment on a global scale. Hartley reassesses the historical and global context, commercial and cultural dynamics and the potential of popular productivity through analysis of the use of digital media in various domains, including creative industries, digital storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion. Encouraging mass participation in the evolutionary growth of knowledge, The Uses of Digital Literacy shows how today's teenage fad may become tomorrow's scientific method. Hartley claims the time has come for education to catch up with entertainment and for the professionals to learn from popular culture. This book will stimulate the imagination and stir further research.

Get the book

Similar books

Digital Literacy Unpacked
By Jo Parker, Katharine Reedy
Digital Literacy Unpacked not only offers a snapshot of innovative approaches to digital literacy, but also intends to provoke discussion, encourage collaboration and inspire – whatever the role or context.
Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: How Learners are Shaping their Own Experiences
By Sara de Freitas, Helen Beetham, Rhona Sharpe
A companion to Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age (2007), this book focuses on how learners’ experiences of learning are changing and raises important challenges to the educational status quo.
Digital Literacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
By Management Association, Information Resources
The first generation of electronic records archivists in the United States: A study in professionalism. New York: Haworth Press. Denhardt, R., & Grubbs, J. W. (2003). Public administration: An action orientation.
Digital and Media Literacy: Connecting Culture and Classroom
By Renee Hobbs
Leading authority on media literacy education shows secondary teachers how to incorporate media literacy into the curriculum, teach 21st-century skills, and select meaningful texts.
Literacy in the Digital Age
By R.W. Burniske
He challenges us to realize our commitment to develop our students as critical and reflective language users. This is a book all serious literacy professionals need to read and discuss with colleagues.
Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology
By National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council, Committee on Technological Literacy
Cell phones . . . airbags . . . genetically modified food . . . the Internet. These are all emblems of modern life. You might ask what we would do without them.
Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices
By Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear
This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy.
Mastering Digital Literacy
By Heidi Hayes Jacob
Teach your students to thrive both academically and in their personal lives in the 21st century. Understand the purpose and importance of digital literacy, and learn the value of digital, media, and global awareness.
Digital Literacy: Tools and Methodologies for Information Society
By Rivoltella, Pier Cesare
The architectural metaphor extends beyond the design of physical spaces to the design of virtual spaces, in particular the information architecture of user interfaces. As McCullough (2004) notes, virtual communities on the Internet are ...
Integrating Digital Literacy in the Disciplines
By Lauren Hays, Jenna Kammer
... C. , & Kirkhoff , S. ( 2019 ) . Digital literacy for the 21st century . In M. Khosrow - Pour ( Ed . ) , Advanced methodologies and technologies in library science, information management, and scholarly inquiry (pp. 12–21) IGI.