Definitions and key terms in Being Digital

Cultural form:: The specific understanding used in the project derives from Raymond Williams' (1975) seminal study of television technology. For Williams, cultural form is a general way used by a culture to represent human experience, the world and human existence in the world. Television forms might include 'live' sports, nature documentaries, police serials, commercials and political reporting. In the context of the Internet, cultural forms might include a hypertextual 'school essay', a 'chat' facility, blogs, or 'massively multiplayer online role-playing games' (MMORPG).
Digital literacy practices:: More than encoding and decoding language, they comprise the ability to use and understand information in multiple formats from a range of sources, when it is presented via the electronic screens of digital technologies. Core digital literacies include: Internet searching, hypertextual navigation, content evaluation and knowledge assembly.