Personal Glossary

Knobel, M. and Lankshear, C. (eds) (2007). A New Literacies Sampler. New York: Peter Lang.

1. Discourses - "Socially recognized ways of using language (reading, writing, speaking, listening), gestures and other semiotics (images, sounds, graphics, signs, codes), as well as ways of thinking, believing, feeling, valuing, acting/doing and interacting in relation to people and things." (pg. 3)
2. Semiotic work - Making meaning from the writing in a text. (pg. 4)
3. Folksonomy - A method of filtering online content, such as tagging, to allow for specific searches on topics. (pg. 19)
4. Projective stance - When playing video games, the world is "something both imposed upon us and as something onto which we can project our own goals, desires and values." (pg. 22)
5. Dueling discourses - Discourses that conflict with each other (ex. "strong wired women vs. vulnerable girls) (pg. 29)
6. Monospatiality - Creating thoughts, opinions, ideas, etc. in an independent space. (pg. 37)
7. Multimodality - Something that draws upon "multiple systems of representation that include but exceed print." Ex. Websites are multimodal. (pg. 58)
8. Authentic professionals - "Have special knowledge and distinctive values tied to specific skills gained through a good deal of effort and experience....They don’t operate just by well-practiced routines; they can think for themselves and innovate in their domains when they have to." (pg. 105)
9. Fan fiction - "Spaces where school-age fans are using new ICTs to engage, not only with pop culture and media, but also with a broad array of literate activities that are aligned with many school-based literacy practices." (pg. 115)
10. Affinity spaces - A place where "people interact and relate to each other around a common passion, proclivity, or endeavor." (pg. 117)
11. Communities of practice - A place where "novices learn through apprenticeship and scaffolding in their interactions with expert." (pg. 117)
12. Hybrid texts - Texts that contain a combination of media and genres. (pg. 118)
13. Ascribed identities - Authorized or stereotyped identities, such as the teacher being considered the expert and the student a novice. (pg. 118-119)
14. Emote - An expression of emotion or action. (pg. 127)
15. Propositional knowledge - Learning content area facts and figures. (pg. 133)
16. Procedural knowledge - "The acquisition of skills and strategies for how to learn and continue learning." (pg. 133) 
17. Intertextuality - "Texts are made from other texts, and the way a reader interprets a given text will depend upon their prior knowledge and recognition of the connections from this text to those other texts from which it is composed." (pg. 153)
18. Affective dimensions -  The way blogging affects our emotions (pride, embarrassent, etc.) (pg. 176)
19. Glocalized - A characteristic of something that "blends local and global communication and interaction," such as social networks. (pg. 190)
20. Memes - "Contagious patterns of 'cultural information' that get passed from mind to mind and directly generate and shape the mindsets and significant forms of behavior and actions of a social group." (pg. 199)