Moving beyond literacy

So I am finding that there are really three strands that are coming into play for what I am looking at regarding emerging technology in education. There is the one that is more of an ICT (think geek) approach that is looking at this as a technology approach which examines the networking, the computers as tools to communicate, etc. There is a second that looks at this phenomena from a use in education approach...that is from a how do I apply this technology in my teaching and how does that impact the teaching. The third is more where I situate myself which is the idea of new literacies which has been used by many, including my favorites of Lankshear and Knobel, to discuss emerging technologies and the impact of the meaning-making associated with and a part of the
everyday and classroom practices in the use of these technologies.
I see that this is incredibly useful starting point, but I also have this feeling that it is slightly off-center from my own focus (or better to say that I am off-centered from this focus). That is, there is a great amount of work looking at this from a literacy view. This is not bad, I just seem to feel that there is other views, that I am in some ways constrained by forcing this through the literacy lens. I resonate more with the practices and spatial approach. Yet, this area is less defined and is so often tied into this idea of literacies. I know that part of this is that the way that we do interact are through artifacts of communication. This approach seems to come from those like Heath and Street who discuss literacy events and practices. They have defined these so broadly that we can really look at anything we do as part of that event/practice.
Yet, I do see that we are missing something. So what is this something? Or is it something, or rather, as I said earlier, that I am coming from a different viewpoint. Thus, I am not viewing this through the lens of literacy and see that there may be value in viewing these activities through different lenses. Other lenses that have been used: identity, spatial, participation, activity, etc.
Although all of these are part of what I am seeing as a part of this, I do not see one as resonating with me as MY lens.
So this is more a post of questions than a post of in depth theorizing.