Going native: Reaching out to "digital natives" through their

new forms of literacy

Kristine Stewart & Katherine AdamsMissouri Library Association Annual

ConferenceOctober 3, 2012

Literacy

Literacy in a traditional sense, is the

“ability to read and (sometimes) to write”

James Paul Gee, 2009

Text-based Consumption

E-LiteracySomething created by “digital natives”Literacy, in a non-print environment. Includes:

• Texts• IM• Blogging• Wikis• Tweets• Social

networking

“Digital Natives”

Millenniums• Born between

1980 and 1995

Internet age&

“Digital natives”

People express themselves in the same ways BUT…

there is an extension of the real world in which they express

themselves

Digital World

Implications of this world on “Digital Natives”

Challenging embedded meanings

and assumption

s in information

sources.

Critical Literacy

Anderson, Gary L., and Patricia Irvine. 1993. Informing critical literacy with ethnography. In Critical literacy: Politics, praxis, and the postmodern. Eds. Colin Lankshear and Peter L. McLaren. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 81-104.

Implications of literacy in information landscape Information Timeline

Life Cycle of Information

Information

Floridi, 2010

Seeing is believing“They cut to what is supposed to be live footage of a female reporter, encased in a protective suit, standing in front of the ruins of the Justice Building in 13. Through her mask, she reports that unfortunately a study has just today determined that the mines of District 13 are still too toxic to approach. End of story. But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay’s wing.

The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She’s not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, “What is?” Collins, Suzanne. Catching fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009. Print. p.162-3

Distillation Process

Popular Media

Personal

Opinions

Friends &

Family

Our Role Coming to us because

they were told to, not necessarily because they think we know anything

There’s an app for that…

Image source: Smiles for a Lifetime. (2012). Retrieved frpm http://bit.ly/SqmYz5

The Filter Bubble Effect

Filter Bubble Effect

Media

Teaching critical evaluation in the context of the news and media resources they consumeNot just text based literacies anymore

Audio Visual

Image Source: Howley, S. (2011, June 10). Media literacy analysis. Retrieved from http://cmlassignmentuon.blogspot.com/

The

BIG

Six

Evaluation“I learned that bias is unavoidable with news media. You just have to be aware of it in every source you watch/read.”

“I feel that it is useful in determining how credible a source might be when we consider the values and beliefs of the major companies such as Disney and CBS who control what the people of America and the world see on a daily basis”

“I learned how to look more closely at the source of the information and whether or not it is biased based on who is reporting the news.”

“Show the same story as broadcasted on MSNBC, FOX and CNN”.

Questions?