@article{Knox_Bayne_2014, title={Multimodal profusion in the literacies of the Massive Open Online Course}, volume={21}, url={https://journal.alt.ac.uk/index.php/rlt/article/view/1438}, DOI={10.3402/rlt.v21.21422}, abstractNote={<p>This paper takes a view of digital literacy, which moves beyond a focus on technical methods and skills in an attempt to maintain a broader approach that encompasses a critical view of the learning subject. In doing this, we consider socio-materialism and its relation to aspects of literacy theory. We anchor the discussion in a consideration of the ‘E-learning and Digital Cultures’ Coursera MOOC, which provided a tangible setting for theorising some of the practices of digital literacy differently. The profusion of multimodal artefacts produced in response to this course constituted a complex series of socio-material entanglements, in which human beings and technologies each played a constituent part. Two specific digital artefacts are analysed according to these terms. We conclude that socio-material multimodality constitutes a different way of thinking about digital literacy: not as representational practices, but rather as multifaceted and relational enactments of knowledge, specific to particular contexts and moments.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>digital literacy; multimodal; socio-material; MOOC; enactment</p><p><em></em>(Published: 31 January 2014)</p><p><strong>Citation</strong>: Research in Learning Technology 2014, <strong>21</strong>: 21422 - <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21.21422" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21.21422</a></p&gt;}, journal={Research in Learning Technology}, author={Knox Jeremy and Bayne Siân}, year={2014}, month={Jan.} }