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The Uses of Digital Literacy (Hardcover)
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The Uses of Digital Literacy (Hardcover)
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At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research
and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led
society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task
as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and
culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to
be rethought as action not behavior, and media consumption as a
mode of literacy. Online social networks and participatory media
are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press
and banned in schools. But the potential of digital literacy should
not be underestimated. Fifty years after Richard Hoggart's
pioneering The Uses of Literacy reshaped the educational response
to popular culture, John Hartley extends Hoggart's argument into
digital media. Media evolution has made possible the realism of the
modern age journalism, the novel and science not to mention mass
entertainment on a global scale. Hartley reassesses the historical
and global context, commercial and cultural dynamics and the
potential of popular productivity through analysis of the use of
digital media in various domains, including creative industries,
digital storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion.
Encouraging mass participation in the evolutionary growth of
knowledge, The Uses of Digital Literacy shows how today's teenage
fad may become tomorrow's scientific method. Hartley claims the
time has come for education to catch up with entertainment and for
the professionals to learn from popular culture. This book will
stimulate the imagination and stir further research.
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