Transliteracy: Crossing divides

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Thomas ◽  
Chris Joseph ◽  
Jess Laccetti ◽  
Bruce Mason ◽  
Simon Mills ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as “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” and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography. We invite responses, expansion, and development.

Transliteracy as a Unifying Perspective

2011 ◽  
pp. 448-465
Author(s):  
Sue Thomas ◽  
Chris Joseph ◽  
Jess Laccetti ◽  
Bruce Mason ◽  
Simon Perril ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the 21st Century. It is not a new behaviour but has been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This chapter defines transliteracy as “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” and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, ethnography and education. The authors invite responses, expansion, and development. See also http://www.transliteracy.com

New Religions and the New Zealand Census

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lewis ◽  
Andreas Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Present Article ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
New Religions ◽  
Alternative Religions ◽  
Twenty First Century

From the very beginning of NRM studies, researchers were focused on understanding who joined new religions and why. By the 1980s, we had reached a consensus profile of young, educated converts who joined primarily via social networks. However, by the twenty-first century, the situation on the ground had changed, in part because of the rising age and greater diversity of recruits to alternative religions and in part because of changes resulting from changes such as the emergence of the Internet as a new environment for non-traditional religions. The present article examines data from the New Zealand census to demonstrate the point that the earlier profile of members of non-traditional reached in the 1970s and 1980s has been superseded, and, further, that it is no longer possible to discuss NRM members “in general,” as a class demographically distinct from members of other religious organizations.

History Has Its Eyes on You

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Maslon
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Personal Preference ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Consumer Habits

A generational change at the beginning of the twenty-first century intersected with the technological advance of the Internet to provide a renaissance of Broadway music in popular culture. Downloading playlists allowed the home listener to become, in essence, his/her own record producer; length, narrative, performer were now all in the hands of the consumer’s personal preference. Following in the footsteps of Rent (as a favorite of a younger demographic), Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton emerged as the greatest pop culture/Broadway musical phenomenon of the twenty-first century; its cast album and cover recording shot up near the top of music’s pop charts. A rediscovery of the power of Broadway’s music to transform listening and consumer habits seems imminent with the addition of Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen to a devoted fan base—and beyond.

Messiah with the Microphone? Oral Historians, Technology, and Sound Archives

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Perks
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Audio ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Skills ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

For decades, oral historians and their tape recorders have been inseparable, but it has also been an uneasy marriage of convenience. The recorder is both our “tool of trade” and also that part of the interview with which historians are least comfortable. Oral historians' relationship with archivists has been an uneasy one. From the very beginnings of the modern oral history movement in the 1940s, archivists have played an important role. The arrival of “artifact-free” digital audio recorders and mass access via the Internet has transformed the relationship between the historian and the source. Accomplished twenty-first-century oral history practitioners are now expected to acquire advanced technological skills to capture, preserve, analyze, edit, and present their data to ever larger audiences. The development of oral history in many parts of the world was influenced by the involvement of sound archivists and librarians. Digital revolution in the present century continues to influence oral history.

scholarly journals Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suryia Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Impact ◽  
First Century ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Combahee River Collective ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Constituent Elements

Abstract The methodology of ‘occupation’ through re-reading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 1977) demonstrates the necessity of temporal linkages to historical Black feminist texts and the wisdom of Black feminist situated knowers. This paper argues that racism produces grief and loss and as long as there is racism, we all remain in racial grief and loss. However, in stark contrast to the configuration of racial grief and loss as something to get over, perhaps grief and loss can be thought about differently, for example, in terms of racial grief and loss as a resource. This paper questions Western Eurocentric paternalistic responses to Black women’s ‘talk about their feelings of craziness… [under] patriarchal rule’ (The Combahee River Collective 1977: 262) and suggests alternative ways of thinking about the psychological impact of grief and loss in the context of racism. In this paper, a Black feminist occupation of racial grief and loss includes the act of residing within, and the act of working with the constituent elements of racial grief and loss. The proposal is that an occupation of racial grief and loss is a paradoxical catalyst for building a twenty-first century global intersectional Black feminist movement.

The Internet at the eco-village: Performing sustainability in the twenty-first century

First Monday ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Cerratto-Pargman ◽  
Daniel Pargman ◽  
Bonnie Nardi
Keyword(s):  
Blind Spot ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Eco Village

Is the digital infrastructure and its footprint an ideological blind spot for recently emerging ecological communities, including eco-villages? This paper examines how a group of people who are concerned with environmental issues such as peak oil and climate change are orchestrating a transition toward a more sustainable and resilient way of living. We studied a Swedish eco-village, considering how computing in this community contributes to defining what alternative ways of living might look like in the twenty-first century. Drawing on a social-ecological perspective, the analysis illustrates, on the one hand, that the Internet, along with the digital devices we use to access it, capitalizes and mobilizes values, knowledge and social relationships that in turn enhance resilience in the eco-village. On the other hand, the analysis shows that an explicit focus on ecological values is not sufficient for a community of individuals to significantly transform Internet use to conform to ecological ideals. This work contributes to a deeper understanding of the imbrication of social technologies with practices that are oriented to perform sustainable and resilient ways of living.

Self-Publishing

2020 ◽  
pp. 327-341
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
The Road ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Traditional Print ◽  
Print Format

In the twenty-first century, the barriers to authorship are lower than ever. Whether on blogs or on communal discussion forums, Facebook ‘walls’, or Twitter threads, anyone with access to the internet can fancy him or herself an author. The road to genuine cultural capital, however, still passes through the book, whether in its traditional print format or in the guise of ebooks consumed on Kindles, Nooks, and other electronic devices. Here too, though, a publishing revolution is underway. Thanks to services such as CreateSpace or iUniverse, it is cheaper than ever to self-publish a book, and, thanks to Amazon, it is easier to disseminate one. In this chapter, Jeffrey Di Leo shows how the results of this development are dramatic, both in a numeric sense and in a qualitative one.

Networking

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-302
Author(s):  
Mª del Carmen De la Calle-Durán
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Planning ◽  
First Century ◽  
Contact Networks ◽  
Dynamic Setting ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Key Techniques

Within an ever-changing and dynamic setting, managers need to develop new skills to enable them to swiftly respond to changes in the environment. One of the skills required of twenty-first century managers and entrepreneurs is the ability to create and maintain contact networks. Nevertheless, networking is not achieved simply by knowing its key techniques. It requires time, effort, and a great deal of practice. Accordingly, following an analysis of the concept of networking and its different types, this chapter addresses the key aspects for creating and upholding them: the principles of networking, its main obstacles, and the techniques used to facilitate it, such as social networks, visibility and exposure events, and mentoring. A further contribution involves the planning of networking to ensure its specific goals are met. Good network planning will ensure the more efficient achievement of networking skills, experiences, and resources.

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