“Definitions don’t matter” : digital literacy and the undoing of Subject Media?

Kendall, Alex and murphy, Geraldine (2015) “Definitions don’t matter” : digital literacy and the undoing of Subject Media? Media Education Research Journal (MERJ), 5 (2). pp. 42-58.

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Abstract

The recent Translit report on media and information literacy policies in the UK calls for more research into the relationship between “Media Studies and media /digital / information literacy in order to provide robust evidence of the need for training and legitimation for the subject as the preferable ‘conduit’ for digital citizenship in the 21st century” (McDougall et al 2014). This paper draws on empirical material collected towards an exploration of further education teachers’ talk about digital literacy to begin these conversations. We put to work ideas from Gee (2011) to map the discursive terrain that shapes ideas, concepts and practices relating to digital literacy within the college context and share our emergent thinking about how digital literacies, and identities for teachers, students and disciplines, are constituted, and constituting within an institutional setting. Towards concluding we invoke Hobbs’ provocation to the Media Education Summit that perhaps “definitions don’t matter” and that digital literacy is less a ‘something’ than an opening up, for teachers, teacher educators and policy makers both in the UK and in the wider international education community, to begin to imagine differently.

Item Type: Article
Dates:
DateEvent
2015Published
Uncontrolled Keywords: Digital Literacies, Literacies, Teacher Development, Further Education
Subjects: CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies
CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education
Divisions: Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > Centre for Study of Practice and Culture in Education (C-SPACE)
Depositing User: Alexandra Kendall
Date Deposited: 30 Jan 2017 09:57
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2022 17:02
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3813

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