Table 1. Defining web literacy

SOURCE SKILLS AND STRATEGIES CONTENT KNOWLEDGE METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE
Karlsson
(2002)

web literacy
- reading
- writing
- semiotic mode: multimodality
- material conditions: text structures and hypertext
- power and ideology
- domain
 
Sutherland-Smith
(2002:662-665)

web literacy
- searching and finding information
- scanning information
- digesting information
- storing information
- reading
- navigating
- moving, adding and changing text
- visual literacy
- multimedia components
- interactivity
 
Ministry of Education
(2000:22-23)

web literacy
verkkolukutaito






Ministry of Education
(2000:26, 2001:24-25)

Steps of (media) literacy

Lukutaidon portaat/
Mediakielitaidon portaikko

- browsing
- navigating
- recognizing
- selecting
- evaluation
- using technology





- communicative competence

Meaning making and
interpretation:

- cultural ability to create new
- evaluate
- analyze
- argue

Producing/publishing:
- writing
- visualizing
- dramaturgy
- design
- traditional literacy skills

Basic access:
- technical skills
- abstract thinking
- hypertext, hypermedia
- intertextuality
- multimedia: graphics, animations, sounds
- non- and multilinearity
- changing models of texts
- interactivity
- multiculturalism
- netiquette


- (n)ethics and netiquette
- recognizing genres

Symbol systems: pictures, words, sounds, icons, graphs, multimedia texts
- awareness and control of one's own goals










Motivation:
- curiosity
Janks 2000

critical literacy
- access
- design
- domination
- diversity
 
Thoman (1999:50)

media literacy
- choosing
- questioning
- verbal and visual symbols
- cultural and situational contextuality
- control of one's own interpretations
Warschauer (1999:158-163)

electronic literacies
Hypertext reading:
- finding
- evaluating
- making uses of sources of information
- navigating

Hypertext writing:
- on-screen presentation including graphics
- expressing meaning
- technical skills
- rhetorical skills

computer-mediated communication

print literacy
- grammar of text
- grammar of visual design

- types of genres
- rhetorical structures
- cultural and dialectical differences
- clear and meaningful purpose for the reading and writing activities
Sorapure et al. (1998:409-422)

web literacy
- access
- evaluation
- rhetorical situations
- intertextuality
- genres
- multimedia
- hypertext
- visual and nontextual features
- interactivity
- netiquette

 
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