1st Edition

The Uses of Digital Literacy

By John Hartley Copyright 2009
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

253 Pages
by Routledge

At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to be rethought as action not behavior, and media consumption as a mode of... Read more

1. Repurposing Literacy:'There Are Other Ways of Being in the Truth' 1

2. From the Consciousness Industry to the Creative Industries: Consumer-created Content, Social Network Markets and the Growth of Knowledge

3. Bardic Television: From the'Bardic Function' to the'Eisteddfod Function'

4. Uses of YouTube Digital Literacy and the Growth of Knowledge

5. Digital Storytelling: Problems of Expertise and Scalability in Self-Made Media

6. A Writing Public: Journalism as a Human Right

7. Fashion as Consumer Entrepreneurship: Emergent Risk Culture, Social Network Markets and the Launch of Vogue in China

8.'The Future Is an Open Future': Towards the'Chinese Century' and Cultural Science

Notes
References
Acknowledgements
Index

Biography

John Hartley