Web 2.0 and New Literacies

Web 2.0 technologies are platforms for what has been called a participatory culture. This is reflected in the provided quote, but many of the binaries in the quote are not new issues, ways of communicating or ways of knowing. In addition, many of the skills necessary to participate are ones that are not new: reading, writing, speaking, filming, etc. However, I do think that in order to become a part of this culture and participate in Web 2.0 technologies, we'll need to learn not only how to be a part of a conversation in combining these "old" literacies, but also learn the skills necessary to go from one new technology to the other "seamlessly." By that, I mean have a set of "this is what I need to to do in order to learn this technology right here right now." This is what we've been doing in this class. Jumping from new technology to new technology (many of them have been participatory) with a plan or an idea of how to get started.