The uses of digital literacy / John Hartley.

ISBN:

9780702237003

Title:

Author:

Hartley, John, 1948-

Personal Author:

Hartley, John, 1948-

Publication Information:

St Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2009.

Physical Description:

ix, 253 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Series:

UQP creative economy + innovation culture series

Series Title:

UQP creative economy + innovation culture series

General Note:

Includes index.

Subject Term:

Digital media.

Literacy.

Digital communications.

Communication and technology.

Multimedia communications.

Mass media.

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

St Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2009.

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One of two inaugural titles in the new UQP Creative Economy + Innovation Culture series - 'new knowledge for the new economy'

Revisiting the pioneering work of Richard Hoggart and his book The Uses of Literacy after 50 years, creative industries pioneer John Hartley provides the conceptual framework, historical context and contemporary analysis needed to understand and extend the role of 'consumer productivity' in creative multimedia. This book shows how far both imaginative and factual media are already exploring the unintended consequences of population-wide digital literacy and social networks, promising a step-change in the growth of knowledge comparable to that of print literacy in the modern era.

Author Notes

John Hartley is a research director at Queensland University of Technology. He is the editor of The International Journal of Cultural Studies and the author of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies .

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One cannot be sure whether this book was inspired by or is in conversation with Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957, since reissued), but whichever the case, Hartley (ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) attempts to capture the state of communications, culture, and semiotics in the digital age and provide a context for the roles that emerging technologies play in the overall narrative of those disciplines. The author of previous books on popular culture, media, journalism, and creative industries, Hartley here jumps from YouTube to digital storytelling to fashion in China without an apparent unifying theme. The writing is theoretical and often opaque--the author provides numerous references to other ideas and thinkers but offers little explication. In addition, the production value is low: many of the images are either grainy or too dark to make out. Though the book offers some thought-provoking insights, it is in the end more a collection of individual essays than a single, cohesive study. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. J. N. Jeffryes University of Minnesota

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