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LiteracyStudies@OSU Fall Program: The Challenge of "New" Literacies
The profusion of proclaimed new literacies, from science, civic, and spatial literacy to media, information, and health literacy, is redefining both the concept of "literacy" and the fields declaring their own literacies. The claims these new literacies make—often large ones—challenge the view of literacies rooted in language, as well as addressing the difficulties of reading and writing across different media and modes of communication. While the "new" literacies represent progress in some dimensions, both their usage and the particularities raise questions. In part, this is a matter of disciplinary differences, but there are a number of other issues that mandate a larger critical conversation.
Our panelists will discuss the critical issues and opportunities these new literacies represent and introduce the courses they have developed to help meet the growing needs and challenges of emerging literacies in their fields.
Please join us.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities
GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT HOUSE 104 East 15th Ave
SPACE IS LIMITED: RSVP to literacystudies@osu.edu
LiteracyStudies@OSU is fostering a critical, cross-campus conversation and investigation into the nature of literacy, bringing historical, contextual, comparative, and critical perspectives and modes of understanding together to stimulate new institutional and intellectual relationships, from the social and natural sciences to the arts and humanities, education, medicine, and law. This initiative is supported by the College of Humanities, Department of English, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, and the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences at The Ohio State University. TO LEARN MORE, VISIT www.literacystudies.osu.edu
