Talk:Information and media literacy

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Looking at Electracy, there are many common themes. I do find it hard to even say electracy and I have never heard the term before. Searching for information on this I would look for information literacy and/or media literacy. 142.22.54.34 (talk) 19:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

There is much in the concept of electracy that is significant and beyond the categories of "information" or "media" literacy. The whole purpose is to have a term that does not include "literacy" (i.e. "littera" -- letter) as a way of defining the shift from literacy to the emergent digital era. As the inventor of the term Greg Ulmer writes, "The nice thing about having such a term is not only the efficiency, but the categorical effect it produces. For one thing, it helps us see the difference between "media literacy" (whose goal is to protect from or defend against electracy by means of forms and practices specific to the previous apparatus; the equivalent for an oral person calling literacy "alphabetic orality"). It also is generative in that, knowing by analogy with literacy that digital technological shift is just one part of an apparatus, we may notice that the other parts of the apparatus shift are also well under way -- for example that a new institution has emerged within which is being invented the set of practices that will be to electracy what schooling and all that goes with it are to literacy. This institution is Entertainment" (see Toward Electracy: A Conversation with Greg Ulmer). I suggest adding a paragraph to this entry with a link to the new term "electracy" as a way of resolving the issue. rsmyth 11:04, 27 April 2008 (EST)