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Kelly Gorcica

Introducing transliteracy - 0 views

  • Transliteracy is recent terminology gaining currency in the library world.
  • The essential idea here is that transliteracy is concerned with mapping meaning across different media and not with developing particular literacies about various media.
  • working definition
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  • Sue Thomas, professor of new media at De Montfort University, attended the Transliteracies conference held by this group in 2005 and has since built upon their research to develop the key concepts and working definition of transliteracy.
  • transliteracy is concerned with what it means to be literate in the 21st century.
  • In its original iteration, transliteracy is more about understanding the ways various means of communication interact and understanding, not necessarily teaching, the skills necessary to move effortlessly from one medium to another.
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