On Technology and New Literacies, with science and technology journalist Clive Thompson

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#WeMakeMedia Season 2: On New and Digital Literacies

Episode 1

In this episode I speak with science and technology journalist Clive Thompson about the affordances new technologies offer communicators, how science has been fighting to keep literacy visual since the advent of the Gutenberg press, and the importance of a formal K-12 education in all of it.

Clive Thompson is a journalist who writes about science and technology, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a monthly columnist for Wired magazine. He also write a periodic column about the history of technology for Smithsonian magazine.

He is the author of Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better and Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World. He is also a musician in the bluegrass group, The Delorean Sisters.

Clive on twitter : @pomeranian99

To learn more about Clive’s work: www.clivethompson.net

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Show notes:

Written by Clive Thompson

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, Clive Thompson

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, Clive Thompson

On Gutenberg press - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon, by Robert Hooke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrographia

Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereus_Nuncius

https://www.amazon.ca/Sidereus-Nuncius-Sidereal-Messenger-Galileo/dp/022632009X