Abstract
This short paper refers back to the pre-conference presentation I gave at last year’s CSSE meeting in Montreal. It uses a contemporary example from everyday social practice to discuss the powers of literacy in social ordering.
Highlights
It is July 2011 as I write from my home in the North West of England
Favours have been granted and many kinds of communication about these activities are being probed by the parliamentary select committees and by political commentators
It is a moment that Dorothy Smith might recognise and savour as a rare public revelation of the relations of ruling which structure our day to day experience and which are normalised within it (Smith 2005)
Summary
It is July 2011 as I write from my home in the North West of England. I have been asked to summarise the presentation I gave to the CSSE pre-conference last summer in Montreal, which addressed the connections between literacy research, critical policy analysis and social action. As a student and researcher of literacy as social practice I can’t help but notice the ways in which written texts in all their dazzling contemporary variety are actively ordering both the unfolding events and helping to reconstruct the history of what has taken place. Since this is a story about the mass media and especially the life and death of England’s best-selling tabloid newspaper, the News of the World, literacy is the very stuff under scrutiny.
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