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DIGITAL LITERACY AND THE DEATH OF COMMUNITY
implications for education
John Carter McKnightAdjunct Professor of Law
Sandra Day O’Connor College of LawArizona State University
VWBPE 2011
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who and why
adjunct professor of law PhD student, Human & Social
Dimensions of Science & Technology former officer/director, science
education nonprofits Marketing/Communications in SL
communities
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what’s digital literacy?
literacy: the ability to receive and transmit meaning using a particular technology
(an STS spin on socio-linguistics)
print literacy: the ability to read and write texts
digital literacy: the ability to receive and transmit meaning using a range of computer tools
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that’s probably important
it’s a world of screens – people probably should be able to use them
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but all tool use involves power
“any view of literacy is inherently political, in the sense of involving relations of power among people” – James Paul Gee
“artifacts have politics” – Langdon Winner
“technology is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral” – Melvin Kranzberg
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so what are the power relations?
communities associations networks
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communities
you don’t choose your neighbors “socially integrative” bad side – they can brutally enforce
conformity good side – belonging, clarity
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associations
de Toqueville and on – American democracy is built on associations
where people gain “democratic literacy” by making political meaning
“bowling alone” for 3 generations now
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networks
“the first fax machine was worthless” what would the politics of the
network become?
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networks
a democratic renaissance online? “declaration of independence of
cyberspace” 1996
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the california ideology
the electronic frontier foundation mitch kapor linden lab burning man
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the view from harvard
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guess what? the hippies lost
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artifacts have politics
community: politics of all of us association: politics of kinds of us network: politics of me and
mine
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sherry turkle says -
- kids these days are feeling themselves victims of technological determinism
- their parents are more interested in their BlackBerries
- digital literacy = vast social pressure- high school social media, the worst
of community and network?
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who has power in the network? me!
I can make my echo chamber the network owner
why is facebook free? the data miners
big brother was a punk kid
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good for community?
probably not everything from transit and housing
choices to high school socializing to gaming suggests,
we want to choose our ties
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so we get this -
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ok, but what about digital creativity?
we’ve put a movie studio, a recording studio and a printing press on every desk
what about the politics of that?
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the biggest revolution ever?
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the empire strikes back
secret copyright treaties “enclosure acts” for the information
commons criminalizing the creative process
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digital literacy – who gets the power? what’s our responsibility as
teachers? “nothing could be more crucial to
democracy than the education of itscitizens” - Martha Nussbaum
citizenship and civilization – “playing well with others”
we don’t, we don’t want to, and digital literacy empowers us not to
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being here is a political statement
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one." - Malcolm Reynolds
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what do we do?
ask the network, of course!