Emerging Topics in the Study of Culture: Introducing Digital Literacy – Vortrag von Ramón Reichert

Emerging Topics in the Study of Culture: Introducing Digital Literacy – Vortrag von Ramón Reichert

Am Dienstag, den 30. Januar 2018, wird Prof. Ramón Reichert um 18 Uhr im GCSC, Alter Steinbacher Weg 38, 35394 Gießen im Multifunktionsraum 001 einen Vortrag zum Thema Emerging Topics in the Study of Culture: Introducing Digital Literacy halten. Ramón Reichert ist Professor am Institut für Theater-, Film und Medienwissenschaften der Universität Wien. Seine Forschungsinteressen liegen im Bereich Medienwandel, Medientheorie, Mediengeschichte sowie Digitale Medien. Organisiert wird die Veranstaltung von der GCSC-Research Area 2 "Cultural Narratologies". In den Vortrag einführen werden Ann-Marie Riesner (ehemalige Sprecherin der GCSC-Research Area 2; ZMI-Sektion 5) und Prof. Andreas Langenohl (ZMI-Sektion 1). Was die BesucherIn erwarten darf, beschreibt Reichert folgendermaßen:

The term literacy has become a ubiquitous metaphor in recent years, particularly in connection with digital technologies. Literacies remain an attractive option to describe the use of new communication technologies and different communication modes for the production of medially-mediated utterances. The lecture from Prof. Ramón Reichert (University of Vienna, Austria) gives an overview of the theories and methods of the new literacy studies and shows in this context their critical potentials and the latest developments in the research field of the digital literacies. Digital literacy involves an understanding how search engines function, how hypertexts and links are structured to encourage us to navigate in particular ways, how information is gathered about users, and how the activity of users is governed and constrained by technological and commercial forces. Digital Literacies develop a theoretical framework of their own owing to the media specificity of digital media culture. In another sense digital literacies focus on technological application competencies when it comes to using convergent media. Finally, Reichert would like to point out that the idea of digital literacy is not only a question of technological transformation but also a question of social practices.