[multimodal texts conference]

Today I presented a paper at the Multimodal Texts conference at Portsmouth University. I centred on my theory of multi-mimesis: how different representational modes (sound, font, images, video, narrative etc...) appear together in certain hyperfictions (specifically Fisher's These Waves of Girls). After presenting this paper I'm thinking I'd like to concentrate on how we "read" hyperfictions which employ these various (and at times subversive) devices...can we still refer to this kind of reading (of images, text, sound, video) as "literacy?" I wonder as literacy originally refered to letters...
The condition or quality of being literate, especially the ability to read and write. [Middle English litterate, from Latin littertus, from littera, ltera, letter. See letter.]
Hypertext (as in the web) really does call for a new theorising and a new vocabulary. I think I'd like to concentrate on this aspect of reading hyperfictions...