I had some requests for the reference for Lemke regarding ecosocial
environments. Here it is for Rhonda and others:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/reinking.htm
Chapter for Literacy for the 21st Century: Technological Transformation in a
Post-typographic World, D. Reinking et al. (Eds.), Erlbaum.
METAMEDIA LITERACY: TRANSFORMING MEANINGS AND MEDIA
J.L. LEMKE
City University of New York
Brooklyn College School of Education
Brooklyn, New York 11210 USA
JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU <mailto:JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Below is a snippet from the chapter:
Transforming Theories of Literacy and Society
Literacies are legion. Each one consists of a set of interdependent social
practices which link people, media objects, and strategies for
meaning-making (Lemke, 1989a; Gee, 1990; Beach & Lundell, this volume). Each
is an integral part of a culture and its subcultures. Each plays a role in
maintaining and transforming a society because literacies provide essential
links between meanings and doings. Literacies are themselves technologies,
and they give us the keys to using broader technologies. They also provide a
key link between self and society: the means through which we act on,
participate in, and become shaped by larger "ecosocial" systems and networks
(see examples below and in Lemke, 1993a, 1995b). Literacies are transformed
in the dynamics of these larger self-organizing systems, and we -- our own
human perceptions, identities, and possibilities -- are transformed along
with them.
Regards to all,
Kim Cooney
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