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utilize a theoretical framework to analyze/interpret new media texts or social networking platforms
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Essay 2: Digital Literacy Analysis Modern literacy is more than reading and writing print-text. It now includes modern technology and writing along with images, video, and sound. The reproduction and Photoshopping of images such as “casual pepper-spraying” offers us new possibilities for public reactions to institutional or social oppression. We will explore the casual pepper-spray meme, the Twitter campaigns and associated literacy events connected to the Schlossberg incident, and how these events and the variety of texts surrounding them relate to Barton and Hamilton’s six propositions of about the nature of literacy. Writers like Buckingham will familiarize us with frameworks for analyzing web sites/texts. The value of B and H’s list of characteristics of literacy and Buckingham’s conceptual aspects is that we begin to see texts not as sterile individual items devoid of social context, but as intertwined with a whole social system, where different agents chose different practices with different benefits and limitations, for different purposes, to engage with other agents, as part of a bigger loosely organized conglomeration of varying power plays. Considering literacy this way can allow us a deeper understanding of the rhetoric we can employ as literate individuals and a deeper understanding of the power literacy plays in high stakes situations…the impact you can have on the world. Your essay should: