{"id":9,"date":"2011-10-05T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2011-11-27T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T00:32:46","slug":"lets-begin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/lets-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Stories Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dobson and Willinsky (2011) conclude their essay <em>Digital Literacy<\/em> with the directive &#8220;We must attend to where exactly and by what means digital literacy can be said to be furthering, or impeding, educational and democratic, as well as creative and literary ends.&#8221; (pg. 22)<\/p>\n<p>This blog has been created in part as a response to that directive. It starts with the emergence of oral literacy and progresses using stories of death as a literary construct, because<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>we all \u2013 in the end \u2013 die in medias res. In the middle of a story.<\/p>\n<p>Of many stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mona Simpson (2011)<\/p>\n<p>This makes the death story ideal because it has no official beginning or end and therefore reflects the fluidity of changes as literacy and associated technologies progress through time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dobson and Willinsky (2011) conclude their essay Digital Literacy with the directive &#8220;We must attend to where exactly and by what means digital literacy can be said to be furthering, or impeding, educational and democratic, as well as creative and literary ends.&#8221; (pg. 22) This blog has been created in part as a response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3653,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vividstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}