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The age of multi-sinoptycons: what new literacies have become part of the game?

The objective of this paper is, first of all, to promote an epistemological discussion about the current socio-historical moment that it is named herein as "multi-synopticon". At this particular moment, not only few watch many (panopticon), many watch few (synopticon), but also, at the same time, many watch many by means of a continuous multi-interaction among people all over the world, through the Internet. Such discussion is a reflection on the ways in which the current era of the "multi-synopticon" - by means of changes brought by internet and, particularly, by the Web 2.0 - does not only bring crucial transformations for knowledge and power issues on/by means of the cyberspace, but also enables, particularly, to rethink issues related to school literacy practices, when searching to promote a relationship with the concepts of "multi-literacies" and "critical literacies" and their implications for school in contemporaneity.

Multi-synopticon; multiliteracies; critical literacies; Internet; school


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