When I think about literacy, writing and reading skills is what comes to mind. After reading the article on semiotic domains It has come to my attention that images, symbols, graphs, diagrams, artifacts, and many other visual symbols are significant in the literate world. The article focuses on video games. I never thought one could be literate in the video game world until now. Just like a comic or comic books, video games has it own set of skills and symbols one must get used to in order to understand what to do and how to be successful in the game. We are constantly learning new literacy’s as we progress in life. In this class for example we have learned a new literacy called netvibes. Never before this website would I know what a widget was and after opening and creating my own page on netvibes I now know what all the symbols on that page mean. This class overall is a new literacy to me. I am becoming more literate in the field of computers and web pages. I think it is especially important for someone in my generation to become highly literate in the domain of computer and technology.

When I was reading this article I thought it was interesting how the author said rap music, high fashion advertising, modernist painting, etc. are all under the literacy domain. When I am listening to music I am not realizing I am in a different literate world. I just thought overall the whole article was really interesting.