The San Jose meeting was the culmination of nearly six months of preparations. The invitees were carefully selected using a three-step process. First, a team of graduate students was assembled to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature on the topics of digital, visual, and new media literacy. A meta-analysis of the citations produced a list of seminal authors whose works were cited over and over; these authors’ names formed the initial list of invitees. That list was expanded by adding the names of representatives of key organizations linked to or doing work in visual and digital literacy, as well.
