ABSTRACT
Today’s learners operate in a complex digitally enhanced learning context, in which they have access to a global network of peers and a plethora of free tools and resources to support their learning. ey have multiple ways in which they can organise and represent content and ways of communicating and collaborating with others. Jenkins (2009) argues that learners need a particular set of digital literacies in order to be part of what he refers to as today’s ‘participatory culture’ (i.e. the notion that social and participatory media enable users to interact more and to publish rather than just consume content), dened by Jenkins et al. as:
… a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created).
