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Electracy

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Electracy is a concept proposed by the American literary theorist Gregory Ulmer to describe the skills associated with using electronic media, covering topics such as multimedia, hypermedia, social software and virtual worlds. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Electracy is a concept proposed by Gregory Ulmer to describe the skills associated with the use of electronic media. 1
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1989 2
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1. Electracy (Wikipedia)
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Electracy is a concept proposed by American literary theorist Gregory Ulmer to describe the skills associated with the use of electronic media.
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2. Electracy (Wikipedia)
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Ulmer introduced electracy in Teletheory (1989).
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