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Digital Literacy Analysis, Essays (university) of Literary Analysis

utilize a theoretical framework to analyze/interpret new media texts or social networking platforms

Typology: Essays (university)

2019/2020

Uploaded on 04/23/2025

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ENG 3080J
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:
Open with an engaging introduction that ends with a thesis
statement.
Provide context on your theoretical framework. Work with Barton and
Hamilton OR Buckingham. Identify and define keywords, possibly with
examples. Language you establish here should be used throughout
your paper. For Barton and Hamilton, you should include some of the
propositions of literacy. For Buckingham, you should include some of
the four conceptual aspects of media literacy.
Provide context on the subject/texts you are going to apply the
theoretical framework to in order to understand.
Systematically analyze your subject/texts with elements from the
theoretical framework.
Arrive at a conclusion that includes language from the thesis
statement and answers the question “So, what?”
Use MLA style for in-text citation and a Works Cited page.
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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:

  • Open with an engaging introduction that ends with a thesis statement.
  • Provide context on your theoretical framework. Work with Barton and Hamilton OR Buckingham. Identify and define keywords, possibly with examples. Language you establish here should be used throughout your paper. For Barton and Hamilton, you should include some of the propositions of literacy. For Buckingham, you should include some of the four conceptual aspects of media literacy.
  • Provide context on the subject/texts you are going to apply the theoretical framework to in order to understand.
  • Systematically analyze your subject/texts with elements from the theoretical framework.
  • Arrive at a conclusion that includes language from the thesis statement and answers the question “So, what?”
  • Use MLA style for in-text citation and a Works Cited page.
  • Be five full pages- a Works Cited page doesn’t count towards the page requirement. There are many ways to go about this writing task. First, you should reread Barton and Hamilton and/or Buckingham, while thinking about what subject or texts you might like to write about/analyze. What’s the buzz in social media? The national news? What are people talking about? What is a source of conflict? Or, document your reading and writing (of any kind) for a day. What would be interesting to think about using Barton and Hamilton in order to consider the broader social context behind things people (including you) put out into the world? What social networking platforms (like Instagram or Twitter) might be good candidates to systematically analyze using Buckingham’s toolset?