Defining Digital Literacy - What do young people need to know about digital media?

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If we want to use digital media for teaching and learning, we have to understand how these media create meaning, and how they represent the world. We need to use media in a critical and reflexive way, rather than instrumentally. This lecture will seek to define ‘digital literacy’ – that is, the competencies we require in order to make sense of, and use, digital media such as the internet and computer games. I will argue that digital literacy is not just a functional matter, or simply to do with ‘safety’. On the contrary, we can extend the critical framework we have established in teaching media literacy to encompass these new media – albeit developing some new approaches in the process. I will also argue that digital literacy must be about ‘writing’ as well as ‘reading’ – about the creative production of digital media, as well as about critical interpretation. The presentation will be illustrated with some examples drawn from research with young people, both in and outside schools.

David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. He has directed several major funded projects on media education, and on children's and young people's interactions with electronic media. He is the author, co-author or editor of eighteen books, including Children Talking Television (Falmer, 1993), Moving Images (Manchester University Press 1996), The Making of Citizens (Routledge, 2000), After the Death of Childhood (Polity, 2000) and Media Education (Polity, 2003). His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and he has taught and addressed conferences in more than 25 countries around the world. He has recently research projects on young people’s engagement with video games; informal learning and creativity in media education; the uses of digital media by migrant/refugee children across Europe; and young people’s responses to sexual content in the media. Forthcoming books include Beyond Technology: Learning in the Age of Digital Media (Polity) and Global Children, Global Media: Childhood, Media and Migration (Palgrave).

Fredag 13. oktober, 09.30-10.15

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