that the new literacy is the advent of new communication technologies
into pop culture and the social ramifications of the them. With the
advent of digital electronic media we read, write and communicate
faster. Digital electronic media also gives us the options to
communicate and express our thoughts and ideas using several
different devices. But also, Lankshear and Kobel note the invention of
Fan Fiction (fanfic) and Manga comics.These genera have little to
do with technology but rather they have more to do with the
combination of graphics with text. Weather like in the case of
fanfic, they use existing iconic characters in pop culture and
literature then write new scripts for them. Or like in the case of
Manga comics the authors combine the pictures and the text
in a new format.
This is where the title of this weeks blog comes into focus.
I see all literacy as light. The flash of the light may be slightly
different, none the less, the relationship of picture to text (the light)
is there. Semiotic domains... {symbolic representations}... Gee, is the
driving force of all literacy.
Lightening represents the innate organic function by which
we as humans process the pictures that we create in our
minds that both enable us to express our thoughts and ideas and
give meaning to out side thoughts and ideas.
Electricity and lasers are the delivery systems by which we
communicate thoughts and concepts. Electricity is the picture/ text
and their combination from cave pantings to writing, to printing on
paper to printing on the web. The lasers are the delivery system by
which the thoughts and ideas are delivered from scribes to mass
printings to the electronic.
As for seeing any signs of life in the school I work in. The patient is
in a coma. I see no signs of life. As for the district I work for they
run the hospital that has the best facilities to keep the patient
comfortably numb in a comatose state.
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