A New Communication Order: Researching Literacy Practices in the Network Society

Volume: 15, Pages: 117 - 131
Published: Oct 1, 2001
Abstract
Integral to the New Literacy Studies (NLS) is an understanding of the need to move beyond narrowly defined explanations of literacy to ones that capture the complexity of real literacy practices in contemporary society. Literacy needs to be conceived within a broader social order, what Street and others have called a 'new communicative order'. Significantly, this new order takes account of the literacy practices associated with screen-based...
Paper Details
Title
A New Communication Order: Researching Literacy Practices in the Network Society
Published Date
Oct 1, 2001
Volume
15
Pages
117 - 131
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