Authors:Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel,
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: digital, literacies, new, epistemologies, policies, concepts, practices
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-07-01
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1433101696
ISBN-13: 9781433101694

This book brings together a group of internationally-reputed authors in the field of digital literacy. Their essays explore a diverse range of the concepts, policies and practices of digital literacy, and discuss how digital literacy is related to similar ideas: information literacy, computer literacy, media literacy, functional literacy and digital competence. It is argued that in light of this diversity and complexity, it is useful to think of digital literaciesthe plural as well the singular. The first part of the book presents a rich mix of conceptual and policy perspectives; in the second

Author: Jane Duran
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: epistemologies, feminist, global, knowing, worlds
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-06-06
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0415927404
ISBN-13: 9780415927406

Authors:Linda Alcoff, Elizabeth Potter,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gender, thinking, epistemologies, feminist
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1992-12-21
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 041590451X
ISBN-13: 9780415904513

This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective.

Author: Adela Pinch
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: hume, austen, emotion, epistemologies, fits, passion, strange
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1997-03-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0804725489
ISBN-13: 9780804725484

This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period’s obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience.The book shows how these epistemological dilemmas became gendered by s

Author: Torill Elvira Mortensen
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: new, literacies, digital, epistemologies, games, computer, play, art, study, perceiving
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0820497002
ISBN-13: 9780820497006

Computer games are increasingly prevalent, and cause both curiosity and concern in the general public, so understanding these games and play is important. Game researchers need to work quickly to document, report, and analyse the effect on our modern society as an increasing amount of people make new and drastically different choices in how they spend their time. Perceiving Play: The Art and Study of Computer Games looks at the directions and findings of this research, and examines how game research integrates the studies of social science, ethnography, textual analysis and criticism, economy,

Authors:Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear,
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: new, literacies, epistemologies, sampler, digital
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2007-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0820495239
ISBN-13: 9780820495231

The study of new literacies is quickly emerging as a major research field. This book "samples" work in the broad area of new literacies research along two dimensions. First, it samples some typical examples of new literacies—video gaming, fan fiction writing, weblogging, role play gaming, using websites to participate in affinity practices, memes, and other social activities involving mobile technologies. Second, the studies collectively sample from a wide range of approaches potentially available for researching and studying new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. Readers will come

Author: Shannon Sullivan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: race, philosophy, series, ignorance, epistemologies, suny
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-05-10
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0791471020
ISBN-13: 9780791471029