Santo, R. (2011) ‘Hacker Literacies: Synthesizing Critical and Participatory Media Literacy Frameworks’ (International Journal of Learning and Media, 3:3, pp.1–5)
Viewed from a critical media literacy angle, the Twitter platform itself is the “text” Messina [the inventor of the hashtag] was “reading.” On this reading, he formed a critical perspective: the text was lacking in certain values, particularly those related to collaboration and group organization. He then engaged in a practice that can be understood from a participatory media literacies perspective: he blogged about a solution he had to this problem, eventually reaching enough users and gaining enough influence in a many-to-many media ecology for the practice to gain widespread adoption.
