Definition of "literacies" []

• Plural form of literacy. (noun)

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• "In the neocolonial present, imposition of new literacies is inconsistently and unevenly transforming pre-existing state bureaucratic and other literate communities while also exacerbating residual class, ethnic, and geographically based tensions that were produced during the British colonial period."
• "State accountants and secretaries wielding various combinations of and competencies in numeric and written-word literacies were charged with ensuring the flow of silver to the mint in the state workshops."
• "Rheingold uses the term "literacies" to highlight that these features are characteristics of a collective rather than of individuals - and I don't expect Claxton would argue against that for at least some of the characteristics."