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Digital Literacy?! Yes Please! -Tice
Sponsorship and digital literacy is for me pretty cut and dry. If a person is involved with Twitter, their sponsors would be other users of Twitter, or even the person who turned them onto Twitter in the first place. Or back in my day when MySpace was the place to be, the big thing was to understand enough code to make your profile unrecognizable. At one point in time I had created my own top friends sections with clickable pictures that were given to me or that I took. Placed it on the opposite side and at one point in time in random places on the page. I also had a box to the side of the picture telling why they were so amazing. In that case not only did my own literacy grow, but it was sponsored by other pages that had completely coded their pages and i saw what they did and wanted to also show my creativity in that way.
Do I know coding? No. Can I put links in the right places to make coding that others made work? Yes. I know no coding. I went to coding sites where i told them what kind of background i wanted and it did the coding for me. Would I want to learn the coding myself in order to not depend on others? Sure!
It is the same for print based literacies as well. There are sponsors that can inspire a person to read or write, it just may not be done through the digital realm. Literacy if anything has many realms. Reading, writing, digital, street art, clothing, and television just to name a few.
I have tried twitter at one point and i lost interest. I didn’t understand the point in it and I still believe that the “hashtag” should still be called the pound sign. If I were to learn something new it would definitely be coding. It just seems like it will be something that will be here long after the hashtag has died a long, slow, and painful death.
Is it obvious I’m not a fan of it being called a hashtag?
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One Reply to “Digital Literacy?! Yes Please! -Tice”
FIrst, I love your hatred of the term “hashtag” since I started out with the same response to it. “It’s a damn pound sign!” could generally be heard whenever I looked at social media. However, I have given up the ghost and started calling it the hashtag since I figure I need to adapt :/
I really like your example of MySpace since it was such a new and interesting type of social media when it came out. I still compare MySpace back to Facebook since they were the two competing sites when I became active on the internet, and I remember it being very hard to learn all the ins and outs of MySpace. On a literacy level, Facebook was easier for me to learn than MySpace ever was and that is probably due to the fact that I know nothing of what goes into the coding of MySpace and that it was the first social media site I was introduced to.
I am finding it hard to agree that digital literacy is cut and dry though since even our online presence is affected and influenced by the outside world. Everything I post these days is generally influenced by my life and the lives of those around me in a very non-digital way. I believe that digital literacy probably expands out into everyday life much more than we realize. Kind of a crazy thought when you really delve into it!