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The Uses of Transliteracywww.transliteracy.com

Sue ThomasProfessor of New MediaDe Montfort University

Narrative and Multimodality Conference27-28 April, 2007, Birmingham, UK.

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

Transliteracy is 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.

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

Hello!Just reading this from barthes:"the nars of the wrld r #less...able 2b carried by articulated language,spkn or wrtn, fxd or mvng images,gestures.."(1977,79). Possibly way2 begin ur translit as repositioning of nar on multimodal track? Just thought sounds like good way2link2past nar theory? Jess:) 

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http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

The qualities of transliteracy might include:

The ability to use and understand a range of tools

Introducing the Book aka Medieval Helpdesk

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

The qualities of transliteracy might include:

Something about collective behaviour

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

The qualities of transliteracy might include:

Something about collective behaviour

A Million Penguins

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The qualities of transliteracy might include:

Awareness of historical & cultural context

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(writing will) create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. (Socrates, The Phaedrus, 370BC)

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WAY WRONG

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WRONGWAY

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WRONGWAY

WAY WRONG

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The qualities of transliteracy might include:

Sense of physicality/spatiality/lifeworld

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The qualities of transliteracy might include:

Multimodal sensibility

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

The qualities of transliteracy might include:

Multimodal sensibility

The Machine is Us/ing Us

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

Transliteracy is 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.

http://www.transliteracy.com Professor Sue Thomas | De Montfort University

The qualities of transliteracy might include:

• Ability to use and understand a range of tools• Something about collective behaviour• Awareness of historical and cultural context• Sense of physicality/spatiality/lifeworld• Multimodal sensibility

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Prof Alan Liu Distinguished Seminar, 2pm, 4th July 2007, IOCT, De Montfort UniversityHow Can We Improve Online Reading?The University of California Transliteracies Project

http://dadecity.tbo.com/video.shtml