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When I began looking into dA I searched for a "real-world" metaphor to give me a handle on how to conceptualize a digital-social space like dA. I required a metaphor that addressed the unique qualities that distinguish dA from other social media platforms. Through conversations with others I nurtured the idea of dA as a neighborhood in a larger digital metropolis; a neighborhood where, like in many cities, people hangout at informal sites and share expertise. I began to envision artist of all ability levels gathering in a digital dA neighborhood, artists meeting at specific digital intersections where they could work, display, and learn from

[WORKING DOCUMENT] Multimodal literacies constitute communicative acts that assemble multiple modes of communication including linguistic and non-linguistic resources, e.g. text, images, video, audio, music, animation, text, and the like. An ensemble of modes opens new ways of knowing and making meaning (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001).  Each unique assemblage of modes, the packing of modes in a unified expression, entrains its own possibilities for opening new ways of knowing. A still image, for example, draws on different mental resources than text does in the mind of the viewer/reader. Together however, more subtle, complex, and multiple meani

Screenshot from rizzapiff's New Literacy Poster (apparently no longer on dA) by!rizzapiff (https://www.deviantart.com/rizzapiff) rizzapiff DA is a site of emerging new literacies. New Literacies Studies (NLS) provide a framework for identifying and describing behaviors related to the acquisition of skills, knowledge, and dispositions through emerging social technologies (Gee, Kalantzis, Kress, et al., 1996; Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2009; Knobel, & Lankshear, 2003, 2007; Leu, O'Bryne, Zawilinski, McVerry & Everett-Capopardo, 2009). One NLS perspective holds that new literacies carry two components; the actual technologies, and an ethos of the behaviors and pract