We’ll use Perusall to annotate and read together.
Blog #2
The part of the Hamilton paper that I found most interesting was the distinction between a “literacy event” and a “literacy practice.” I feel that the distinction is an important one to make, but that it wasn’t made very clearly in the paper. It took me a while to truly understand that a literacy event is an actual moment in time where something is being read, whereas a literacy practice is the repeated occurrence of a literacy event in a society.
The image I found depicts a man and a woman reading a newspaper, The Daily Telegraph. The interesting thing about the photograph is that one of the participants is reading an actual newspaper, whereas the other is a digital copy on a tablet. I feel that the image very simply demonstrates the diverse ways that literacy is incorporated into our lives.
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One Reply to “Blog #2”
The unique question I have about this picture is this: are both persons participating in a literacy event or literacy practice? Does the use of the electronic technology make it any less valid than the use of physical paper? It is reading, it should the news on a device be called a “paper” if it has none? Overall, it is a good image post.