Igniting Talk on Digital Literacy

New technologies and developments in media are transforming the way that individuals, groups and societies communicate, learn, work and govern. This new socio-technical reality requires participants to possess not only skills and abilities related to the use of technological tools, but also knowledge regarding the norms and practices of appropriate usage. To be ‘digitally literate ’ in this way encompasses issues of cognitive authority, safety and privacy, creative, ethical, and responsible use and reuse of digital media, among other topics (Meyers, 2009; Arnone, et al., 2011). A lack of digital literacy increasingly implicates one’s full potential of being a competent student, an empowered employee, or an engaged citizen. Digital literacy is often considered a school-based competency, but it is introduced and developed in informal learning contexts such as libraries, museums, social groups, affinity spaces online, not to mention the home environment. This community-building event will recognize and connect the ways and places we conceptualize and realize digital literacy