Presentation given at "Rhetoric as Equipment for Living. Kenneth Burke, Culture & Education" (23-05-2013, Ghent)

1. Dramatistic analysis of literacy narratives
in social media environments

2. […] an ability to read and a
condition of being well-read.1
[…] the practice and
profession of writing.2
[…] understanding and competent control of
[…] the burgeoning variety of text forms associated
with information and multimedia technologies.3
In an era of convergence, we encounter
the same information, the same stories,
the same characters and worlds across
multiple modes of representation.4

3. […] each technological advance has seen a corresponding change in
how literacy is practiced and its social role understood.5

28. 1. Immerse yourself by…
o observing what others do
through their literacy
narratives
o participating in similar
environments and activities
2. Reflect by…
1. analyzing experiences of other
and yourself dramatistically
2. writing down your own literacy
narrative
3. Add to the understanding of
literacy by…
1. sharing and discussing your
literacy narrative with others!
2. inspiring others to do so as
well!

29. Works cited:
1 Raymond Williams (1983) Keywords: A Vocabulary
of Culture and Society, p.184
2 Ibid, p.185
3 The New London Group (1996) A Pedagogy of
Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures, p.61
4 Henry Jenkins, et al. (2009) Confronting the
Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education
for the 21st Century, p.46
5 Ilana Snyder (2003) Keywords: a vocabulary of
pedagogy and new media, p.14
6 James Paul Gee (2005) Semiotic Social Spaces
and Affinity Spaces: From the Age of Mythology to
Today's Schools, p.231
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