Questions from Today's Readings

Questions from Today’s Readings:

1. When reading digital texts, there is a sort of way that people expect to perceive certain words. This is cool and dangerous at the same time. When reading digital text, there are many things that can affect the way a person reads or understands what is being said. For example, the same phrases with the exact same punctuation could be misunderstood dramatically. If someone were to say “Shut up!” it could mean two or more different things. Someone could take it as an excited positive remark about something unbelievable that just happened, or the person could feel like it legitimately means to shut up and leave the person alone. There is a huge difference between the two. In print, usually there is an explanation of the context by the writer. This allows the reader to know what is really being said so there is no misconception.

2. No, they are essentially linked because the participant must be as digitally and critically literate as the active person in order to understand what they are saying. If that person cannot understand how to follow what someone says on facebook or any other literature that use digital text, they would be completely in the dark. Also, through participating one learns by watching and reading what is in front of them.

3. Of course, it is actually very easy to nail what actions people like myself do that constitutes contribution, consumption, and distribution. When I like or comment on a status or photo, I am personally sharing my opinion of something with everyone else who can see it. When I deliberately scroll through my news feed, I am reading and consuming the work and contributed things my friends have to share with everyone else. Lastly, distribution is specifically tagging or posting a work on someone else’s wall. This aspect of facebook now makes me think of it as a giant hub with a collaboration of works coming together. It is a central station where millions of thoughts come together as one with every person’s thoughts included.

4. His definition of digital literacy is basically surrounded upon the idea of connection. The connection of ideas and new text language continuously changes as time goes on. Through a connection that is brought forward from the digital world, there is a digital world that keeps all who are in it informed.