What is critical digital literacy? Critical being, Barnett (1997) - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

What is ‘critical digital literacy’?

• ‘Critical being’, Barnett (1997) in a digital

setting

• ‘Multiple critical techno-literacies’ (Kahn

and Kellner 2005)

• ‘Programme or be programmed’ (Rushkoff

2010)

reflecting on features of technologies in use with an awareness of the design process; understanding how the user experience is structured so as to support particular kinds

• f identity- and subject-position; recognising

the commercial and material production of digital devices and services; developing alternative repertoires of technology use; and reflecting on how power is manifested in digital transactions

Working with PGR interns

“I have never believed technology itself can produce a utopia, and if anything am even more sceptical now of inflated claims for digital

• technology. Deep rooted problems in academic practice will not be,

in my opinion, solved by recourse to technology.”

Questions arising

• Is ‘critical digital literacy’ an elite and fairly advanced

meta-language?

• Or is it a stance towards technology and its uses,

available to anyone with some digital know-how?

• Is it too much a discourse of (or too readily assimilated

into) the Western academic tradition?

• In what spaces do people develop critical literacies of

the digital? Are they (mainly) formally educational?

• How can approaches to critical digital literacy

development be sustained?