Digital culture has changed literacy requiring us to "rethink" the way we communicate both as consumers and producers of information.

1. Metaliteracy in
Virtual Metamodern
Libraries
VALERIE HILL, PHD
©2020 Valerie Hill

2. The Gutenberg
Parentheses have
closed.
Gutenberg Bible, Epistle to the Galatians.
(Circa 1455, National Library of Scotland. Used with permission.).
T. Pettitt and L. Sauerberg
©2020 Valerie Hill (Preface)

3. ©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 1)
Postmodernism has ended…
So where are we now?

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5. ©2020 Valerie Hill (CH3)
Digital Devices- Digital Trends
Online Learning & MOOCS
Competency-Based Education
Internet of Things (IOT)
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
Artificial Intelligence

6. The Dark Side of Digital Culture
Personal
Dashboards
Confirmation
Bias & Resource
Evaluation
FOMO & the
“Edited Life”
Too much
information
Death of
Privacy
Big Data &
Cybersecurity
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 4)

7. What is LITERACY in digital culture?
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8. Our Philosophical Moment
Modernism Postmodernism Metamodernism
(Early 1900s) (Mid-Late 1900s) (21st Century)
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 6)
Claude Monet Christopher Wool David Thorpe

9. Learning Environments
Physical, Virtual or Augmented
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10. Preservation of Literacy
Formats
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 8)

11. FUTURE RESEARCH
is needed for all age groups
to understand digital
citizenship.
Yes! The Information
Revolution has changed
literacy forever. We live in a
fascinating, fast-paced time
no matter what it is called.
Perhaps the consensus will be to
adopt the name…
Metamodernism
©2020 Valerie Hill (CH 9)

12. Community Virtual Library in
Second Life

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References
Hill, V. J. (2020). Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and
Opportunities (pp. 1-225). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Mackey, T., & Jacobson, T. (2014). Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to
Empower Learners. Chicago: Neal-Schuman.
Sauerberg, L. (2009). The Encyclopedia and the Gutenberg Parenthesis, Media-in-
Transition 6 Conference - Stone and papyrus, storage and transmission, April 24-26, 2009,
Cambridge MA.
Van Den Akker, R., Gibbons, A., & Vermeulen, T. (2017). Metamodernism: Historicity,
affect, and depth after postmodernism. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Van Den Akker,
R., & Vermeulen, T. (2017).