Turning a New Page in the Digital Age: Leveraging Copy-and-Paste Literacies

• In Event: Computer and Internet Applications in Education SIG: Various Topics Virtual Session

Abstract

A new literacy that has become increasingly prevalent due to the continued penetration of the internet is the increased opportunity for developing copy-and-paste literacies. These literacies could emerge through the act of copying digital content and pasting it into other contexts. Copy-and-paste literacies may prove useful for youth in programming computers, remixing digital media, creating multimedia wikis, and collaborating across online spaces, among other ever-emerging possibilities.

However, copy-and-paste practices are not uniformly seen as beneficial. Copying-and-pasting is normally in opposition to the rules, codes of conduct, and ethos of formal academic educational settings. And in a legal context, copy-and-paste practices violate traditional copyright. This conceptual session investigates the phenomenon of copy-and-paste literacy and its position within new literacy debates.

Author

• Dino Sossi, NYU, CUNY, Teachers College, Columbia University
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