In Professor Vee’s article, she brings up a form of literacy that many of us may not really think of off the top of our heads: coding. I know for a fact that before reading her article, I never thought of coding as a form of literacy. However, it does make sense in a way. Coding is a language and it has significance and meaning and creates things. It made me think, what other forms of literacy are out there that we may not have seen at first glance? Are there other forms out there we don’t immediately jump to? It may be hard to come up with others, but I’m interested.
For example, being able to read/write music can be a form of literacy. There is a significance to each note, including pitch and length. Being able to read it creates music, which some often refer to as a universal language. What other forms of literacy can you think of?
I agree in that I think that music is a form of literacy. Something else that I can think of would be the literacy of texting. I at one point like I’m sure a lot of us used simplified wording like u, r, lol and omg. In fact, out of curiosity, I looked online at the Merriam-Webster dictionary and OMG is actually defined there. Something else that comes to mind and I’d argue is that emjois are themselves their own form of a simplified literacy. Just like text, emoji’s have their own definitions and messages can be communicated through the use of emjois, albeit those messages are simple.
This question really depends on your personal opinion of what is literacy. Personally I think that literacy can encompass a wide array of things and that lead me to list some of the examples that I did.