La danza delle literacy

Abstract

The public discourse about the information literacy often develops to include a good number of other literacies (computer literacy, cultural literacy, health literacy, transliteracy, digital literacy, media literacy, financial literacy, metaliteracy, functional literacy, civic literacy, digital civic literacy etc.). At first impression they have blurred meanings and boundaries, hence their relations are not clear. This obviously doesn’t help the creation of faceted programmes of information literacy. These literacies are instead interconnected in clearly understandable ways in a complex, delicate, and very interesting design – which is the reason why we are speaking of the dance of the literacies – which brings at the end a new and deeper awareness of what means to be a literate person today.