Globalisation, Technology and Sustainable Development Book Series
WORLD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK 2006
Global and Local Resources in Achieving Sustainable Development

2006
 
(from Chapter 7: Knowledge Management)

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Title: A KM framework for digital literacies
  Author(s): Roy Williams, Charl Walters
  Address: University of Portsmouth, UK
w.w associates, Reading, UK
Roy.williams @ port.ac.uk, charl.w.w @ ntlworld.com
  Reference: WASD 2006 Proceedings  pp. 197 - 208
  Abstract/
Summary
The field of literacy and development normally assumes that more literacy is always a good thing. We need to question this, along with writers such as Brian Street, Anna Robinson-Pant and others. However, the debate about ''literacies'' needs to be widened to include the ability to interact with, and originate, texts in all the new literacies, that is, the new digital media and in particular the internet. In order to do so, we need a broader framework of analysis, which adequately accounts for the role that a multitude of literacies has and can have, in people's lives. In this paper traditional ''literacy'' and media frameworks will be critiqued, using in particular the work of Doronilla, on development in Asia, Rihani, on the application of Complex Adaptive Systems theory to development, Ferguson on ''antipolitics'' and Titmus on ''diswelfare''. These will be used to construct a framework of development discourse, with references to several case studies.
 
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