1. New Literacies, New Practices : Media Literacy and Web 2.0 Applications Dr Julia Davies University of Sheffield

2. New literacies, new practices  This presentation is based on the premise that literacy is changing in a new media world (Kress, 2003; Lankshear and Knobel, 2006).

3. Cult of the Amateur  “Useless and corrupt user generated content”  “Self promotion - narcissism”  “Bloggery …. an enormous threat” (Andrew Keen: BBC Radio 4. 25.6.07.)

4. “Kids are going on the internet and are believing everything they read we are creating an increasingly media illiterate culture … in order to understand the internet you need to be literate before you get to the screen….” (Andrew Keen: BBC Radio 4. 25.6.07.)

6. What is Web 2.0?

7. ( Angermeier, 2005)

8. (Knobel and Lankshear, 2007)

9. Useful tools for developing media literacy  Blogs  Wikis  Podcasts  RSS Feeds (Really Simple Syndication)

10. How can Web 2.0 develop media literacy?  Products and services enable manipulation of and reflection on data.  Collaboration and participation are key factors – can encourage group critical reflection.  Fosters agency and creativity of individuals e.g. citizen journalists.  Easy and free access to web-based software.

11. Citizen journalism …is the act of citizens ‘playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating information’ (Bowman and Willis, 2005) ‘Peoplerazzi’ http://www.nowpublic.com/http://www.nowpublic.com/

12. Wikis and citizen journalism

13. Sheffield: Flickr.com 25.6.07

15. London bombings 7/7

16. Key question for pupils What are the advantages and disadvantages of ‘citizen journalism’?

17. News and blogs

18.  Many ‘news’ blogs maintained by ‘citizen journalists’ e.g. blog kept by Iraqi civilian Salam Pax, who was eventually invited to write a column for the Guardian on the Iraqi invasion  Many newspapers now have blogs in addition to printed newspapers and online news

21. http://hometownbaghdad.com/

23. Folksonomic tags Links Blog archives, categorised by content Comments facility

24. Readers can report on offensive comments Identity of commenter and date comment sent stated

25. Guardian news blog

26. Guardian news

27. Key question for pupils What do a news blog and newspaper website do that a printed newspaper doesn’t, and vice-versa?

28. Syndication and news

29. Google News

30. Frustrated Cities http://www.frustratedcities.com

31. Vote for your favourite news story! Digg

32. News and podcasting

33. Evoca Evoca

34. Monteney’s Egyptian News Monteney’s Egyptian News

35. http://radiowaves.co.uk/

36. Radiowaves

37. News and online publishing systems

39. Making the News

40. Conclusion  Web 2.0 products and services have great potential for work on the media.  Pupils can create blogs, wikis and webpages for relaying news as well as exploring the way in which news is created and reported across Web 2.0 platforms.  Web 2.0 is changing the nature of journalism and the newspaper industry – contemporary pupils can be at the forefront of tracing these changes and their implications.  New literacy practices are needed for new times – educators need to take risks and explore potential.

41. New Literacies, New Practices : Media Literacy and Web 2.0 Applications Dr Julia Davies, University of Sheffield