Thomas et al. (2007): Transliteracy: Crossing divides

Useful stuff on transliteracy (and some mentions of multimodality) in this reading from the EDC10 course:

"The ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks." 

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"In this article, we explore a new concept - "transliteracy" - which is both very old and brand new"

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"the concept of transliteracy calls for a change of perspective away from the battles over print versus digital, and a move instead towards a unifying ecology not just of media, but of all literacies relevant to reading, writing, interaction and culture, both past and present."

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"Across this long stretch of cultural time, five million years of human communication, the privileging of reading and writing as primary defining literacies begins to seem somewhat out of scale."

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"But humans have only been using reading and writing for a very short time in our history, so how else do we communicate?" Transliteracy pays attention to the whole range of modes and the synergies between them to produce a 'transliterate lifeworld' in constant process."

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"It is an interstitial place teeming with diverse life-forms, some on the rise, some in decline, expressed in many languages in many voices, many kinds of scripts and media."

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"There are more similarities between modes than may be at first apparent, and the technological skills involved are often simple to acquire if the user is positively inclined to attempt them."

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"As we have seen, transliteracy involves being able to read, write and interact across multiple modes."

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"However, materials does not have to be digital to be multimodal."

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