I'm writing this blog post as part of the Digital Literacies for Online Learning course, where we're asked to explore different definitions of digital literacies and construct a personal definition based on our reading. It's interesting to note that originally the term was used in the singular - ' digital literacy' - but, as explained in AdvanceHE's (n.d.) handy history of the term , the increasing complexity of the digital world and the skills needed to navigate it shifted usage to the plural. I find it helpful to start with a short definition of digital literacies which sets the boundaries of what we are talking about: digital literacies are "those capabilities which support living, learning and working in a digital society" (Jisc, n.d.). This definition indicates how, for many of us, the digital environment now impacts on most aspects of our lives. It also emphasises that digitalisation needs to be understood as a social phenomenon. D...