ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses eight literacies that need to be considered when engaging in a participatory culture. These include five literacies to master – collecting, curating, listening, feeling, and creating through doing, and three literacies to unlearn – top-down leadership styles, competition, and specialization. These literacies were identified following the implementation of a new class that introduced theories of collective intelligence from multiple disciplinary perspectives and the application of these theories to the real-world problem of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States. Upon reflection, the class, a consensus culture (intentional, outcome-driven participatory culture), revealed not only the need to master new literacies but also the need to unlearn old ones.
