Looking over the feeds, I seem to have been trying to blog/share items that I have picked up from the radio. There is definitely a theme arising here - blame it on Bladerunner – human/digital technological interaction/fusion/evolution. I’m not sure how to label this, but I think it is visible from the … (I don’t have the vocabulary for [...]
What are transliteracies – from watching this video I think I am getting closer to understanding. According to this video it entails taking understanding of one mode or medium and applying it to another.
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I dare you to watch this and keep a straight face all the way through. Having said this, I think that the video does show how complex the idea of transliteracies is, and also how engaging.
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In my quest to understand what transliteracies is/are all about, I found this, but is it media literacy or transliteracies they are talking about? There seems to be either some confusion or some overlap.
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http://www.katepullinger.com/studio/webtaster/part1.htm
Another way of reading?
Transliteracy:
I think I am now getting to grips with the lifestream and some of its ethos. If my DIY definition of transliteracy is valid, then it means not only being able to manipulate digital media – to create and communicate using it, but it also means being able to see how we are affected by the use [...]
I’ve been trying to work out just what is meant by transliteracy (Thomas, et al, 2007). I have currently honed it down to:
an awareness of how interacting with different artefacts from different media will affect a variety of aspects of life.
The reason I chose this picture is because, for me, it joins the discourses of [...]