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

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: Gunther Kre
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: literacies, media, new, literacy
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-02-14
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 041525356X
ISBN-13: 9780415253567

In this ’New Media Age’ the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium of communication. This dramatic change has made image, rather than writing, the center of communication. In this groundbreaking new book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a revolution that has radically altered the relation between writing and the book. Taking into account social, economic, communicational and technological factors, Kress explores how these changes will affect the future of literacy.

Author: Elaine Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: literacies, american, african
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-12-13
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0415268826
ISBN-13: 9780415268820

Text explores literacy education from the points of view of students from the African American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture. Provides an account of the language and literacy practices of African American students, offering new ways of thinking about and incorporating linguistic diversity. Hardcover, softcover listed in approval week 32-2003.

Author: Kathryn Thoms Flannery
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: literacies, feminist
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2005-05-02
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0252029615
ISBN-13: 9780252029615

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women’s movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and consciousness-raising. Kathryn Thoms Flannery discusses this outpouring and the group education, brainstorming, and creative activism it fostered as the manifestation of a feminist literacy quite separate from women’s studies programs at universities or the large-scale political workings of second-wave feminism. Seeking to break dow

Author: James Paul Gee
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: discourses, ideology, literacies, linguistics, social
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-09-13
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0415427762
ISBN-13: 9780415427760

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current statement of a widely discussed and used theory about how language functions in society, a theory initially developed in the first edition of the book, and developed in this new edition in tandem with analytic techniques for the study of language and literacy in context, with special reference t

Author: Donna E. Alvermann; et al
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Keywords: lives, adolescents, literacies, reconceptualizing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-03-28
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0805853863
ISBN-13: 9780805853865

Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives, Second Edition focuses on exploring the impact of young people’s identity-making practices in mediating their perceptions of themselves as readers and writers in an era of externally mandated reforms. What is different in the Second Edition is its emphasis on the importance of valuing adolescents’ perspectives - in an era of skyrocketing interest in improving literacy instruction at the middle and high school levels driven by externally mandated reforms and accountability measures. A central concern is the degree to whic