Dramatistic analysis of literacy narratives in social media environments

[…] an ability to read and a condition of being well-read.1

[…] the practice and profession of writing.2

[…] understanding and competent control of […] the burgeoning variety of text forms associated

with information and multimedia technologies.3

In an era of convergence, we encounter the same information, the same stories, the same characters and worlds across

multiple modes of representation.4A History of

Literacy

A History of

Literacy

[…] each technological advance has seen a corresponding change in how literacy is practiced and its social role understood.5

Young people today are confronted with and enter more and more affinity spaces. They see a different and arguably powerful vision of learning, affiliation, and identity when they do so. Learning becomes both a personal and unique trajectory through a complex space of opportunities […] and a social journey as one shares aspects of that trajectory with others […] for a shorter or longer time before moving on.6

Young people today are confronted with and enter more and more affinity spaces. They see a different and arguably powerful vision of learning, affiliation, and identity when they do so. Learning becomes both a personal and unique trajectory through a complex space of opportunities […] and a social journey as one shares aspects of that trajectory with others […] for a shorter or longer time before moving on.6

1. Immerse yourself by…o observing what others do through

their literacy narratives

o participating in similar environments and activities

2. Reflect by…1. analyzing experiences of other

and yourself dramatistically

2. writing down your own literacy narrative

3. Add to the understanding of literacy by…

1. sharing and discussing your literacy narrative with others!

2. inspiring others to do so as well!

Note to

self…

Works cited:

1 Raymond Williams (1983) Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, p.1842 Ibid, p.1853 The New London Group (1996) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures, p.614 Henry Jenkins, et al. (2009) Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, p.465 Ilana Snyder (2003) Keywords: a vocabulary of pedagogy and new media, p.146 James Paul Gee (2005) Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces: From the Age of Mythology to Today's Schools, p.231

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