Of the half dozen comic strips in last Sunday's paper mentioning cell phones, the Internet, or a social networking site, they all relied on the common trope that these technologies are overly complicated, packed with needless features, and too hard to learn.

Is digital literacy the best term through which to describe the ways that individuals make meaning through a variety of multimodal texts? Are there better alternatives?

A reflection on the Association of Internet Researchers Conference and the practice of tweeting at professional conferences.