Writing and Transliteracy

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

Writing & Transliteracy

MUST 1009 - 15 March 2007Professor Sue Thomas

[email protected] 1.01d x8266

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WritingThe action of one who writes e.g.

penmanship, handwriting, typewriting etc (ME 1000-1400AD); the action of composing

and committing to manuscript including style, manner, literary expression (late ME)

music (1782)That which is in a written state or form; work;

document; deed; inscription (ME)


TransliteracyThe ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms and tools from orality

through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media.


Read Write Interact

Book √

Email √ √

TV √

MySpace √ √ √

Blackboard √ √ √

MP3 √ √

More…?



Media Literacy 'The ability to access, understand and create communications in a variety of contexts.' (Ofcom,

2003)+

Digital Literacy 'The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of

sources when it is presented via computers.' (Gilster, 1997)+

More: a sense of history, culture, production and interaction (help needed with this bit!)

= Transliteracy 'The ability to read, write and interact across

a range of platforms and tools from orality through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media.' (PART,

2006)


Singin in the Rain

(1951) Set late 1920s

Excerpt 8 mins

What literacy is missing here?

[While you watch, keep adding to your chart]


Web 2.0..The Machine is Us/ing Us

Michael Wesch (2007)

4 mins

What kind of literacy is this?

[remember your chart!]


How to use BloglinesSue Thomas (a few weeks ago)

3 mins

Literacy?

[remember chart!]


Epic 2015Robin Sloan, Museum of Media History (2005)

8 mins

What future literacies can you imagine?

[chart!]


Find out more

Production and Research in Transliteracy

(PART)

www.transliteracy.com


Find out more

MA in Creative Writing and New Media

http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com


Find out more

Chris Joseph

Digital Writer-in-Residence, IOCT

http://www.chrisjoseph.org


Read Write Interact

Book

Email

TV

MySpace

Blackboard

MP3

More…?


DMU projects to watchOnline MA in Creative Writing and New Media http://www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com Writing and the Digital Life blog and email list http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/wdl/ Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) http://www.transliteracy.comTags, Networks, Narratives http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/tnn/ Chris Joseph, Digital Writer-in-Residence, http://www.chrisjoseph.org IOCT Salon http://www.ioctsalon.com Institute of Creative Technologies http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/

Dates for your DMU diaryApril 5, Low Brow Trash at the IOCT Salon http://www.ioctsalon.com June 8, First UK Conference on Women, Blogging & Business http://www.nlabwomen.com July 4, Alan Liu, Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara, IOCT http://www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk/wp/ July 10, Tags, Networks, Narratives Public Seminar, IOCT (Bruce Mason, Sue Thomas and others) http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/tnn/

Further reading Tim O’Reilly ‘What is Web 2.0?’ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html Kevin Kelly, We Are The Web Wired 13.08, August 2005 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech_pr.html Thomas, S. Transliteracy - reading in the digital age, English Subject Centre Newsletter http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/explore/publications/newsletters/newsissue9/thomas.htm Thomas, S. Del.icio.us. way to talk Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 October 2005 http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/wdl/2005/11/_delicious_way_to_talk__times.html Sloan, R. & Thompson, M. Epic (Movie file) http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/ Sue’s guide to adding a site to Bloglines http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/~sthomas/bloglinesfeed1/bloglinesfeed1.html

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