@suethomas kicking off the #transliteracy conference. A great mix of people - delegates from a broad range of academic, creative & business backgrounds
@solobasssteve introducing the amp team - which today is him, @josiefraser & @brian_condon - & the philosophy behind amp engagement: more at
amplified.pbworks.com@suethomas What is Transliteracy?
The ability to read, write and interact across a variety of platforms and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks #transliteracy
1995-2005 - the Trace Online Writing Centre grapples with the emergence of technology and it's impact on literacy. Trace archives can be found here:
trace.ntu.ac.uk #transliteracy
2005 - @suethomas moves to Montfort University & The Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) - a unique research environment which sits at the intersection of science, technology, humanities and the arts.
www.ioct.dmu.ac.ukUCSB Transliteracy conference inspires @suethomas to adopt and adapt the consept of #transliteracy
www.english.heacademy.ac.uk #transliteracy
Sue now talking about "transliterate" and how the term came about - she says that it's close to the idea of transliteration but is different in paractice.
2006 - IOCT looks for business, research and creative applications of transliteracy - including the introduction of an MA in creative writing and new media at DMU
www.hum.dmu.ac.uk #transliteracy
"Nobody really knows what literacy is anyway" says Sue Thomas
There's more to literacy than reading - Chauvet Horses
en.wikipedia.org approximatly 32,000 years old. Twitter a bit younger #transliteracy
What is literacy? there isn't an agreed definition. Humans have only been 'literate' for a very short time. #transliteracy
Sue argues that there's more to literacy than writing. It's about the way in which attention can be modulated or, perhaps controlled. Mentions the idea of deep attention and a secure environment for thinking and problem-solving.
Writing is an aid "not to memory but to reminiscence" providing "not truth, but only the semblance of truth" - Socrates 370 BC
"Print has a place but not the only place" - Sue Thomas
"You have to use social media to understand it" - @suethomas #transliteracy
Sue describes the exploration she has made in looking at developing an understanding of the networks in transliteracy. Looking at the gaps between things and what you can learn from the gaps.
"We need to experiment and sometimes fail" to understand what transliteracy means.
Sue cites Bobbi Newman - geek Librarian her blog is here
librarianbyday.wordpress.com@suethomas finishing with a video by Bobbi Newman, geek librarian 'Libraries and Transliteracy'
librarianbyday.netSession 1: Competencies
Kate Pullinger has just introduced Judith Aston, talking about Transliteracy and polyphonic narrative #transliteracy
Judith Aston is looking at transliteracy in the context of an ethnographic and anthropological practise which blurs traditional disciplinary boundaries. Accessibility issues - from making knowledge available through expensive academic books and website navigation #transliteracy
Creating narrative pathways through data bases of information to allow readers to construct their own stories #transliteracy
Judith Aston experimenting with computer keyboard gaming commands to navigate through archive content - great for kids, although perhaps not immediately obvious to non-gamers #transliteracy
More information on Judith Aston - really interesting work
www.uwe.ac.uk #transliteracy
Fernanda Bonacho's presentation, Disrupting preconceptions: transliteracies of reading. What is reading online today? How do we work as receptors of information? #transliteracy
PDF of Fernanda Bonacho's paper 'Introducing online reading'
portal.acm.org #transliteracy
Fernanda Bonacho: reading is transliteracy. Bonacho looking at Walter Benjamin's concepts Erlebnis and Erfahrung
courses.nus.edu.sg #transliteracy
Grand Text Auto - what a great name
grandtextauto.org group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. #transliteracy
Next up, Matt Grace from the university of Exeter, on Geography & #transliteracy. and penguins :)
Matt came across the Million Penguin project
www.amillionpenguins.com - interested in the use of 'non-place' (online) for geographic collaboration #transliteracy
What happens when geographers collaborate? mrs (c) kinpaisby(hill) - is the author name for a collective of collaborative geographers #transliteracy - reminds me of Karen Eliot :) more on collective names
www.thing.deGareth Howell from DMU on now talking about the history and future of web comics #transliteracy
Exploring the idea of similarities in form between comics and web formats. serialised comics as blogs, one picture jokes as tweets, syndication, mashups & reposting. Peanuts as Watchmen
www.slashfilm.com #transliteracy
Gareth Howell: What if comics weren't on the web, what if comics were in the web? How do we put the characters in the web - give them blogs, flicker streams - use the unified style of the author to expand comics across the web #transliteracy
Gareth's been populating the web with Love & Rockets (good choice): Maggie the Mechanic on Facebook, La Llorona on MySpace, Henry's photo gallery of falling in love with Hopey on Flickr #transliteracy
Gareth Howell: Narrative ordering: we tend to not start at the beginning of things online or in comics, the linearity gets broken/isn't always necessary #transliteracy
Gareth's talk is outlined here:
nlabnetworks.typepad.com #transliteracy
Drew Whitworth delivering the final paper of the morning session - Critical Theory, Learning and #transliteracy
Whitworth is a political theorist - interested not just what transliteracy is but what it does.
informationobesity.ning.com #transliteracy
#transliteracy treats all forms and formats equally. the real world doesn't. #
"if we stand back far enough, we can see that there is intelligent life on earth" - Drew Whitworth #transliteracy
Filtering. Curriculum is a filter for the content of a course. Assessment is a resource filter. "how do (can?) Learners generate their own context; their own ecology of resources" #transliteracy
we all tied to the limits of our innate cogitative biases. except depressed people. #transliteracy
Question: Do transliterate practices/artists require transliterate audiences?Drew Whitworth: you can't wait for what you think the audience might be ready for, or you'd only produce lowest common denominator content
Breaking for lunch! Sessions kick off again at 1.30pm #transliteracy
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