Multiliteracies Conference Notes
Graham Wegner,
Teaching Generation Z,
May 09, 2008
There's a lot of scepticism surrounding the whole idea of multiliteracies. Which I suppose is not really surprising - after all, it is seen as "TV studies" in some circles, and it's hard to imagine that it's a real academic discipline that will actually show anything of value in the long run. And it doesn't help when we are told - for the umpteenth time that "Written paper texts are generally consumed in a linear fashion, but digital text can be very non-linear." Which isn't even true (try being non-linear watching TV. Try being linear flipping through a newspaper). And how do you know anything is 'true' in this discipline - what separates an important insight from sheer nonsense (so far as I can tell, it's a connection to a star - like Guy Ritchie)? But... but... there are multiple modes of media, and multiple modes of communication, and probably, multiple modes of thinking and imagining. And - just as with language - the semantic context extends well beyond either the speaker or the speech. It's like any media production carries this 'cloud of meaning' with it.
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