electracy means the skill and facility necessary to exploit the potential of modern electronic media. It carries an Arena rating of 1306, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, electracy ranks #863 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #4,868 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #5,345 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #6,409 of 17,163 for Funniest Words.
Why “electracy” is a great word
Electracy is the cognitive capacity and cultural aptitude required to navigate, create, and communicate within the symbolic environment of contemporary electronic media. A blend of *electrical* and *literacy*, the term was coined by media theorist Gregory Ulmer to name an emergent apparatus of sense-making. Unlike literacy, which denotes competence in the linear logic of print, or digital literacy, which focuses on the practical skills for using tools, electracy describes the broader logic of a culture woven from networks, images, and affect. It is the intuition to assemble meaning from a mosaic of clips and hyperlinks, the somatic rhythm of a thumb scrolling a feed, and the warmth of a screen’s glow on a face in a dark room—a new grammar for being human, learned not from pages, but from pulses.
Etymology
Blend of electrical + literacy. Coined by Gregory Ulmer.
noun
- The skill and facility necessary to exploit the potential of modern electronic media.
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