Overview

At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to be rethought as action not behavior, and media consumption as a mode of literacy. Online social networks and participatory media are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and banned in schools. But the potential of digital literacy should not be underestimated. Fifty years after Richard Hoggart's pioneering The Uses of Literacy reshaped the educational response to popular culture, John Hartley extends Hoggart's argument into digital media. Media evolution has made possible the realism of the modern age journalism, the novel and science not to mention mass entertainment on a global scale. Hartley reassesses the historical and global context, commercial and cultural dynamics and the potential of popular productivity through analysis of the use of digital media in various domains, including creative industries, digital storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion. Encouraging mass participation in the evolutionary growth of knowledge, The Uses of Digital Literacy shows how today's teenage fad may become tomorrow's scientific method. Hartley claims the time has come for education to catch up with entertainment and for the professionals to learn from popular culture. This book will stimulate the imagination and stir further research.

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Author:   John Hartley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781412814294

ISBN 10:   1412814294
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 June 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Repurposing Literacy:'There Are Other Ways of Being in the Truth' 1 2. From the Consciousness Industry to the Creative Industries: Consumer-created Content, Social Network Markets and the Growth of Knowledge 3. Bardic Television: From the'Bardic Function' to the'Eisteddfod Function' 4. Uses of YouTube Digital Literacy and the Growth of Knowledge 5. Digital Storytelling: Problems of Expertise and Scalability in Self-Made Media 6. A Writing Public: Journalism as a Human Right 7. Fashion as Consumer Entrepreneurship: Emergent Risk Culture, Social Network Markets and the Launch of Vogue in China 8.'The Future Is an Open Future': Towards the'Chinese Century' and Cultural Science Notes References Acknowledgements Index

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<p> [O]ffers some thought-provoking insights... Graduate students, researchers, faculty. <p> --J. N. Jeffryes, Choice

-[O]ffers some thought-provoking insights... Graduate students, researchers, faculty.- --J. N. Jeffryes, Choice

Author Information

John Hartley is ARC Federation Fellow and research director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane. He is a distinguished professor of QUT, where he was foundation dean of the Creative Industries Faculty. He is the author of many books and articles on popular culture, media, journalism, and creative industries, most recently Television Truths.

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