Defining NML
New Media Literacy … What is it? How do you define it? This is one of those terms that’s been used so much that it’s become kind of a generic catch-all for anything that relates to learning environments that incorporate Web 2.0 apps. The New Media Literacies Project has a video that defines it in terms of words such as negotiation (e.g., moving into/across different spaces), appropriation (e.g., remixing), and play (e.g., experimenting with/in surrounding environment).
As they lay out this definition, they tend to peg it to the word skills, which seems to me a little too reductionist and more reminiscent of industrial-age learning environments. Instead, I like the alternative they bring in towards the end, competencies, which, as Henry Jenkins says in the video, doesn’t restrict it to just education and workplace contexts, but citizenship and creative expression.
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