Student Work: Poster and Podcast on Literacies

The Multiple Literacies Research Unit would like to share this poster and podcast presentation exploring Multiliteracies.

However, we would like to note that Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) is not synonymous with Multiliteracies.

Here is an operationalization of MLT:
- Literacies are a construct (a combination of social, physical, economic assemblages, ...).
- Literacies consist of words, gestures, attitudes, and ways of listening, speaking, writing, human and non-human: ways of becoming with the world.
- They are texts, in a broad sense (for example, music, visual arts (painting, sculpting), physics, mathematics, digital remixes).
- Texts are an assemblage of events from which sense emerges. Literacies can be are taken up as visual, oral, written, tactile, olfactory, and in multimodal digital.
- They fuse with religion, gender, race, culture, and power, and that produce speakers, writers, artists, digital avatars: communities.
- Literacies are actualized according to a particular context in time and in space in which they operate.
- Given the nomadic tendencies of literacies; they are not wed to a context, but are taken up in unpredictable ways across various contexts.

Literacies involve constant movement in the processes of becoming other. In short, literacies are about reading, reading the world, and self as texts.

Please see an article by Diana Masny and David R. Cole for more information:
Masny, D. & Cole, D. (2007). Applying a Multiple Literacies Theory in Australian and Canadian contexts. (Draft). In A. Simpson (ed.). Future directions in Literacy: International Conversations (p.190-211). University of Sydney Press : Sydney, Australia.
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~dmasny/english/writings/masny_cole_2007_en.pdf

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