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  • noun The skill and facility necessary to exploit the potential of modern electronic media.

Etymologies

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Blend of electrical and literacy, coined by Gregory Ulmer.

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  • One way of thinking about this might be to ask the question of how to learn to live with new media / electracy and then discussing how our many different perspectives, concerns, methods might be brought to bear on that question.

    digital digs 2009

  • One way of thinking about this might be to ask the question of how to learn to live with new media / electracy and then discussing how our many different perspectives, concerns, methods might be brought to bear on that question.

    digital digs 2009

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