Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices
Journal Title: Webology - Year 2008, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
With Digital literacies … a group of internationally renowned authors, under the capable editorship of Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel, succeed in raising awareness for the vast scope and complexities of literacies that need to be considered in a rapidly developing digital environment.
Authors and Affiliations
Ina Fourie
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP687559
- DOI -
- Views 198
- Downloads 0
Search Engines and Power: A Politics of Online (Mis-) Information
Media and communications have always been employed by dominant actors and played a crucial role in framing our knowledge and constructing certain orders. This paper examines the politics of search engines, suggesting tha...
Situated practices of information use and representation: an ethnographic study of a web design project for boys
This article explores the production practices employed by children building personal webpages in a semi-structured afterschool program: the Fifth Dimension (5D). Following a critical Multiliteracies (CritMLs) approach t...
Method of Artificial Neural Networks Teaching
The technique of artificial neural networks training has been developed. A distinctive feature of the proposed technique is that it provides training not only for the synaptic weights of the artificial neural network but...
Vygotsky’s Activity Theory and Health Scholars’ Web-based Information Practice
Vygotsky’s Action Theory clarifies that humans’ behaviors are mostly derived by socio-cultural backgrounds. It heavily relies on the fact that information interaction can be affected by afterbirth habits and historical k...
Gametherapy: Playing Computer and Mobile Games for Problem Solving
The purpose of this theoretical study is to indicate that when gametherapy or game play therapy is applied, it can be of benefit to game players in giving them insight into their problems, resulting in a change of beha...