Multiliteracies

In today's society literacy does not only take the form of written print text but also incorporates the many variations of literacy that have emerged to address our cultural and social diversity, technological advancements and the 'shrinking of the world' from globalisation ( The New London Group 1996).


This morning when I woke up I sent an email, wrote a text message, scrolled down my news feed on facebook that revealed freshly posted images and comments of friends and family. All of which I would not have known or seen if not for the World Wide Web. It is from this observation that I can illustrate that we live in a world that allows us to communicate our daily movements through multimodal patterns that requires us to identify, read and create new texts using various semiotic codes (The New London Group 1996). Cope and Kalantizis developed a framework to describe the process that an individual takes in order to do this (1996).

So how do we use these multiliteracies that are present in our daily lives?


Cope and Kalantizis identified three elements within their framework consisting of Available designs, Design and The Redesigned.

http://www.newliteracies.com.au/what-are-new-literacies?/138/


The framework thus becomes a more fluid way of creating knowledge applicable to all literacies which now incorporates the vast array of ways to communicate in today's society (Cazden, Cope, Fairclough, Gee et al, 1996).