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The New Three Rs of Digital Writing: Record, Reenact and Remix

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The three Rs for schoolchildren were once thought to be reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. These were considered foundation skills for literacy, generally understood as the ability to read, write and interpret information using the tools of the time. According to some media scholars, we now require multiple literacies. Douglas Kellner suggests that ‘we need to learn to think dialectically, to read text and image, to decipher sight and sound … to develop forms of computer literacy’.1 While typewriters and biros were once key technologies of literacy, networked computers now play the central role.

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Millard, K. (2014). The New Three Rs of Digital Writing: Record, Reenact and Remix. In: Screenwriting in a Digital Era. Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137319104_4

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