This document discusses emerging digital literacies and embedded technologies. It addresses how personal digital networks can influence information finding and sharing behaviors. There is a discussion of applying these concepts to both personal and business contexts. Some issues that emerged from student assignments include an increased awareness of how personal technology use, like social media, can impact people. Students also commented on implications of sharing links and using plugins in public online content as a way to represent themselves as engaged members of social networks. The document raises questions about next steps, like refining assessments and advocating for a university-wide academic social network.

1. Emerging Technologies –
Embedded Digital Literacies
Frances Bell, f.bell@salford.ac.uk
Marie Griffiths
Maria Kutar
Image used under Creative Commons License from Edans

2. Context, Philosophy and Design
X6

3. practice
theory
Personal/ consumer
Commercial/ producer

4. Example of linking theory/ising to
(personal) practice

5. How does your personal network influence
finding and sharing behaviours?
Network influences Network influences Saving/
Finding volume/ quality impact
sharing
links links
2 virtuous circles if finding/sharing
Strength is in overlap
Delicious
Twitter

6. Then applied to business context

7. Issues and Emerging Themes
 (from reflective assignments)
 Increased awareness of implications of personal use
e.g.Facebook
 Comments on their use of links/ plugins in public web
content conveys a sense of themselves as active
nodes in socio-technical network
 Web site evaluation important practice of critique
 Reviewing consumer /producer relationship in
business context

8. Tree ear
Nutmeg66 on
flickr.com
Over to you – I am listening

9. What next?
 Module (PRINT) handbook (except slides)
 Use classroom-based discussion in place of lab-based
activities
 Refine assessment
 Campaign for university-wide provision of academic
social network