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Digital Literacy

Andrew Maier
November 12, 2013

Digital Literacy

What does it mean to be literate in a digital age? Our conventional definition implies reading and writing, paying no mind to new media’s inherent malleability. It’s only by scrutinizing the ends to which our digital creations are used that we’ll come to better understand our ability to effect change via those creations.

More information (additional parts coming soon): http://www.uxbooth.com/articles/digital-literacy-part-1-cadence/

Bibliography: http://bit.ly/10Mdelj

Andrew Maier

November 12, 2013
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  1. “ Literacy, in any medium, means not just knowing how

    to read that medium, but also how to create in it, and to understand the difference between good and bad uses. Clay Shirky Foreword to Mediactive by Dan Gillmor
  2. Dear " AmericanAirlines" ! I redesigned your website and I'd

    like to get your opinion. Dustin Curtis
 http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html (A design villain)
  3. Fire your entire design team... [who] is obviously incapable of

    building a good experience. Get outside help. Dustin Curtis
 http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html
  4. Dear Dustin Curtis, I saw your blog post titled “Dear

    American Airlines,” and I thought I’d drop a line. Sorry for the length of this email, but let me sum up the gist of what I’ve written below: You’re right. You’re so very right. And yet… Mr. X (via Dustin Curtis)
 http://dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html
  5. Political affordance The quality of media allowing an actor to

    assemble a public, a potential for shared understanding, by way of his/ her actions upon it.
  6. Asking deliberate questions in a deliberate order might yield a

    deliberate result. The design of Design
  7. Design Posture A designer’s ability to promote either consensus or

    dissensus with regards to a system of thought. Design rhetoric.
  8. The culture we created as a consequence, though, was –

    and still is in some ways – profoundly unattractive. What was supposed to be fairness can become callousness or, at the very least, can feel that way when read from the other side. Nick Harkaway The Blind Giant “
  9. At any level of abstraction, design can either be a

    gesture of consent or dissent. A (re)statement of fact or a rhetorical question.
  10. Dear " AmericanAirlines" ! I redesigned your website and I'd

    like to get your opinion. Dustin Curtis
 http://dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html (A design villain)
  11. When the campaign began in late 1988, annual alcohol-related traffic

    fatalities stood at 23,626. By 1994, fatalities had declined by 30%.
  12. Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed:

    everything else is public relations. ! —GEORGE ORWELL
  13. Journalism principles ๏ Thoroughness. Learn to speak the language. ๏

    Accuracy. Avoid errors; they undermine trust. ๏ Fairness. Talk to users and stakeholders. ๏ Independence. Construct your own narratives. ๏ Transparency. Ask people to corroborate. Adapted from Dan Gillmor’s principles of trustworthy media creation in “Mediactive”
  14. Teaching principles ๏ We teach by way of artifacts. ๏

    Both process and product. Articulation over definition. ๏ Identify memes, tropes, narratives, genres. Cultural accupuncture. ๏ Cultivate a learning community. Slack, SendtoInc. ๏Cognitive dissonance ๏Humility/beginner's mind ๏Hats/IA ๏don't put how before what ๏Gathering
  15. Cultural acupuncture Using ideas from culture which are of particular

    resonance to audiences, and… ‘pushing these areas’ to creat[e] a civic effect.
  16. Participants are mobilized as “Dumbledore’s Army of the real world”

    in campaigns such as “Not In Harry’s Name,” which pressures Warner Brothers into using Fair Trade chocolate for its Harry Potter Chocolates. Connected Learning: An Agenda For Research And Design
  17. We’re in an industry that’s largely focused on having users

    not think when there’s a great deal of merit in considering what we want users to think about.
  18. @andrewmaier [email protected] http://bit.ly/10Mdelj Nerds rejoice! There’s a bibliography available! Icons

    used: Idea by Waleed Al-Alami, People by Wayne Tyler Sall, Conversation by Márcio Duarte. All from The Noun Project