Personal Glossary
Anime:
a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark
colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often
with fantastic or futuristic themes
Affinity
Space: According to Gee (2004), "An affinity space is a
place or set of places where people affiliate with others based primarily on
shared activities, interests, and goals, not shared race, class culture,
ethnicity, or gender" (p. 67).
Blogging:
a Web site on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities, and
experiences.
Emote:
Expression of emotion, action, or gesture (p.127)
“Etho
Stuff”: Lankshear and Knobel refer to new digital environments as
“techno stuff” and the way in which we use and engage with them, “ethos stuff.”
Source: Teaching Writing in a Digital Age at
http://twinada.wordpress.com/
e-readers:
a handheld device on which electronic versions of books, newspapers, magazines,
etc., can be read.
Fanfic:
fiction written by a fan of, and featuring characters from, a particular TV
series, movie, etc.
Fecundity:
The rate at which an idea or pattern is copied or spread. One of Dawkin’s
characteristics of a successful meme. The more quickly a meme spreads,
the more likely it is to capture robust and sustained attention and be
replicated and distributed. (Pg. 202 Ch. 9)
Glocalized:
Blends local and global communication and interaction such as social networks
(p. 190)
Hybrid
Texts: Texts that are comprised of combinations of various media
and narrative genres (p.188)
Intertextuality:
Texts made from other texts (p.153)
Manga Producing: Manga is a Japanese word referring both to comics and cartooning. "Manga" as a term used outside Japan refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan.
Memes:
an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be
passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially
imitation.
a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied
(often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users. (p. 199). Memes include such things as popular tunes, catch-phrases, clothing fashions, architectural styles, ways of doing things, icons, jingles, and the like. Ch. 9
New
literacies: refers to new forms of literacy made possible by digital
technology developments, although new literacies do not necessarily have to
involve use of digital technologies to be recognized as such.
Online
Writing: A text created with (and usually intended for viewing on)
a computer, smartphone, or similar digital device
Podcasting:
a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series,
that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer.
Primary
Discourses: Our primary Discourse is how we learn to do and be
(including speaking and expressing) within our family (or face to face
intimate) group during our early life.
Secondary
Discourses: Our secondary Discourses (and we each have many of these,
although they differ from person to person) are those we arerecruited to
through participation in outside groups and institutions, such as schools,
clubs, workplaces, churches, political organizations, and so on.
Vodcasting:
the creation and provision of video files for download to a computer, MP3
player, etc.
Zine:
a small magazine that is written by people who are not professional writers and
that usually has stories about a particular subject. a noncommercial often
homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often
unconventional subject matter. (Source: merriam-webster.com)
The source of most of my definitions came from A New
Literacies Sampler by Lankshear and Knobel.
