The document discusses concepts related to literacy and communication, emphasizing analogies such as immigrant and native forms of literacy. It explores the evolution from orality to secondary orality and the emergence of digital literacies within Web 2.0 contexts. The discussion also includes the complexity of digital natives' interactions with multiple media and the influence of 'old media' in shaping new literacy practices.

1. The R of PaRT
Inventing a paradigm or somesuch
Points for discussion at seminar, February
20th, 2007
Bruce Mason, De Montfort University, UK

2. Suitable analogies
• Above
• Across
• Immigrant
• Native

3. Above
• Orality to literacy
• Literacy to secondary orality
• Secondary orality to secondary literacy

4. Across
• Oral literate continuum
– Communication strategies
– Literacy as a more general concept
• Transliterate competence
– ‘Reading’ and ‘writing’
• Across modes and media

5. Immigrant
• Pidgen literacy
– An emergent form generated by picking from
multiple registers.
• Imported literacies.
– Old media recreated in new media.

6. Native
• Creole – when a pidgin has native
speakers.
• Creative mashup
• Increasing complexity
• Digital natives aka kids love phones

7. Research 2.0
• A starting point aka 2.0Literacy
• Attempts to mash together “old media”
and web2.0
– A Million Penguins
– Oort Cloud
– YouTube as folk video
– Memory archive as mass observation 2.0

8. 2.0
• Current 2.0 sites as Immigrant or pidgin
• Native 2.0 sites e.g. del.icio.us
• Studies of pioneers, early adopters.
• Emergent 2.0 literacy
– Tagging
– Linking?
– What else is out there (tacit 2.0)