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<blockquote>"Many recent studies on literacy have addressed the question of the social construction of literacy. For example, it has been argued that "web literacy should be understood as literacies, and furthermore as socially situated practices rather than technologically determined conventions of reading and writing" (Karlsson 2002). Literacy as a social practice means that it is always bound to the societal and social contexts of different domains of life, and is historically situated and constantly evolving. (Barton and Hamilton 1998, Warschauer 1999, The New London Group 2000). Following this view, web literacy in the present study is understood as a set of social and cultural practices of reading and writing in relation to different media objects on the web."</blockquote> | |||
<p align="right">Ahtikari, J., & Eronen, S. (2004). On a journey towards web literacy--The electronic learning space Netro. A dissertation submitted at the University of Jyvaskyla Department of Languages. Retrieved September, 26, 2005.</p> | |||
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<blockquote>"The web can be seen as one large community of users from all over the world. On a macro level, this community shares the basic conventions of using the web, such as conventions of navigation, storing information and interaction. In addition, there are many sub-communities on the web, such as communities of professionals, which can be either local or global. A web user, thus, is a part of many communities, the members of which often have shared social conventions and literacy norms. By participating in the discourses of different communities, also new, perhaps less proficient members of the communities have a chance to acquire these shared conventions. Reading and writing on the web is thus a process in which the web user uses his or her prior knowledge to integrate the new information into his or her prior knowledge according to shared conventions. | |||
If we understand web literacy as a social practice it also follows that it is historically situated and constantly changing. Changes in literacy reflect the changes in various areas of society: in personal lives, in communities, in education and in working lives. (The New London Group 2000:10-19). At least in many western societies, the web is an influential medium causing changes in literacy practices of working, public and private lives. The web functions as a new source of information demanding new strategies of handling this information, as well as brings along new ways of communicating. Reading and writing related to work and personal lives is ever more often connected to using the web, and web literacy practices have become an integral part of society functions (see eg. Warschauer 1999:4)."</blockquote> | |||
<p align="right">Ahtikari, J., & Eronen, S. (2004). On a journey towards web literacy--The electronic learning space Netro. A dissertation submitted at the University of Jyvaskyla Department of Languages. Retrieved September, 26, 2005.</p> | |||
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<p align="right">Ahtikari, J., & Eronen, S. (2004). On a journey towards web literacy--The electronic learning space Netro. A dissertation submitted at the University of Jyvaskyla Department of Languages. Retrieved September, 26, 2005.</p> | |||
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