Themes of NML (part 2)

In this post, I'm going to take a stab at a couple of different ways that various authors have talked about NML themes and overarching concepts.
Warshauer summarized how different individuals have framed technology and literacy together. He suggested that there were three different frames; learning, power and change. Learning discusses the impact of technology use with a focus on literacy and learning. However, he saw that "In addition, technology- even when used in a particular way- usually is better understood not as having an impact, but rather as helping reshape a broad social ecology, and thus affecting learnining in ways that are unforeseen" (New Lit. Handbook, 219) He suggests that the change framework allows us to understand that ways that literacy reshapes learning, however, by looking at a power framework, introduces context a purpose and thus can include the change and learning frameworks to some extent according to Warshauer.
Another suite of themes "to construct expanded notions of literacies and being literate" are those of identity, participation and collaboration. These are strong terms and lenses to use for understanding changing literacies. One might also add into these, the aspect of culture as this provides the underlying flow from which to discuss changing identity and identity resources, as well as the ways that participation and collaboration are constructing a shared set of practices.
In my own examination of the literature, I might suggest connectivity, access and modality. This would be conenctivity in both that of the connection to others and among others (social), as well as the interlinking of information and ideas through the web nature of the internet. Access also refers to access to a variety of people, cultures, potential identities (the more social aspect) as well as to information (which changes the dynamics of information capital). Finally, the modality refers to the expanded ways that relationships and information are being constructed.
Although not foregrounded to the same extent, I see an underlying, and interesting theme flowing throughout the literature: everyday practices. This idea is valuing the practices that emerge in the everyday life's of individuals outside of school. It is looking at the ways that the,as internet use becomes part of the everyday, it does change the ecology of interactions and assumptions about knowledge, information and people. Thus, the funds of knowledge and knowledge resources of individuals has become more prominent in discussions of this technology. However, I am not sure if that is a theme or more prominent than just a theme and needs to be a defining aspect of the discourse around new literacies.
So: connectiviy, access and modality as seen in the everyday practices of individuals are changing the ways we understand and interact...thus the major themes and ideas from NML??
Well, it at least is a start. Comments...anyone...anyone??
J:)