Why Beignets

Why Beignets?
Tom Ipri
Head, Media Computer Services
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Why “Why Beignets”?

Characteristics

Characteristics
Mapping meaning across different media and not with developing particular literacies about various media
Not about learning disparate literacies in isolation from one another but about the interaction among all these literacies

Characteristics
Analyzes the relationship between people and technology but is fluid enough to not be tied to any particular technology
Concerned with the social meaning of literacy

Characteristics
Explores the participatory nature of new means of communicating
breaks down barriers between academia and the wider community
calls into question standard notions of what constitutes authority by emphasizing the benefits of knowledge sharing

Implementation

Implementation
Do these concepts manifest as skills and to what degree these skills are teachable?
Ways various means of communication interact and understanding, not necessarily teaching, the skills necessary to move effortlessly from one medium to another

Implementation
“Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy.”
Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson
College & Research Libraries, Jan 2011

Implementation
“promotes critical thinking and collaboration in a digital age, providing a comprehensive framework to effectively participate in social media and online communities…

Implementation
…It is a unified construct that supports the acquisition, production, and sharing of knowledge in collaborative online communities.”

Implementation
“Standard definitions of information literacy are insufficient for the revolutionary social technologies currently prevalent online.”

And Info Lit?

And Info Lit?
Are IL standards enough to support the growing research with how people currently communicate across various media, how they produce information in myriad forms and formats, and how they establish rapidly expanding social networks?

And Info Lit?
Yes? No? Maybe?
Should these standards be expanded to encompass these issues, or should transliteracy proponents adopt clear standards and define specific skills to supplement information literacy?

And Info Lit?
Not only question previous assumptions of authority, it also calls into question the often assumed privilege of printed text

And Info Lit?
ALA Committee on Literacy’s defines literacy as the ability to use “printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential.”

And Info Lit?
Not unique in questioning this bias
Is unique in
Combining democratizing communication formats
Expressing no preference of one over the other
Emphasizing the social construction of meaning via diverse media

So What? Who Cares?

So What? Who Cares?
In the transliterate world, creating a social network of experts is held in high regard
What is important is not just transferring information but creating an information narrative that evolves over time and adds value

So What? Who Cares?
Libraries can help add value for patrons by allowing patrons to contribute to the social construction of knowledge bases

So What? Who Cares?
Because of the ways in which transliteracy questions authority and devalues hierarchical structures proponents tend to advocate for issues that help level the information playing field, such as ensuring neutrality and bridging the digital divide

So What? Who Cares?
So much of transliteracy overlaps concerns much at the heart of librarianship
Librarians can incorporate these new ideas into the ways they assist patrons with accessing, understanding, and producing information

So What? Who Cares?
The social aspects of transliteracy can enhance the workplace by creating robust systems of knowledge sharing and can enhance user experience by granting them a role in the construction of information

Thank You!

Photo References
Slide 1: cplbasiliskhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cplbasilisk/5560435844/
Slide 2: ulterior epicure http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulteriorepicure/433910180/
Slide 3: clamheadhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/clamhead/350992024/
Slide 7: kaigehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/kaige/5319929111/

Photo References
Slide 13: Lexinatrixhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lex/5470173016/
Slide 18: ulterior epicure http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulteriorepicure/78217750/
Slide 25: avrenehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/enerva/5541816076/

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