Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures
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Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures

  1. 314 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming daily life and education. The chapter topics—identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes—are organized thematically in five sections:



  • Digital Futures


  • Digital Diversity


  • Digital Lives


  • Digital Spaces


  • Digital Ethics

This is an essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice. It will enable new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781315465234

Index

  • Abbott, R. D. 130
  • Abrams, S. S. 177
  • academic outcomes and computer usage 67
  • active externalism 127
  • Active Worlds 189
  • activism: collaborative composing and 264, 269–72
    • hashtag 17
  • adolescents see also children; youth: digital writing and 161–70
    • fan-based online affinity spaces and 173–81
  • Adventure Author 188
  • advertisements and images 225
  • aesthetic literacy 250
  • aesthetics 8
    • in the digital age 285–99
    • return to communication 286
    • separation from meaning 285
  • aesthetic writing and newer forms of 286–91
  • affinity groups 117, 204
  • affinity spaces 200, 204
    • fan-based 124
  • affinity space theory 175, 177
  • African Americans: counter-narratives on Twitter 117
    • critical race theory and 113
    • digital literacy practices of 61
    • digital participation and 79–80
    • Internet access 64
    • male youth and intersectional identity 83
    • police killings of suspects 76
    • stereotypes of masculinity 83
    • time spent with media 68
  • African American women: digital narratives of 93
    • embodying themselves in digital tools 95–6
    • as knowledgeable agents 88–96
    • literature on 91–3
    • negatively stereotyped 90–1
    • rewriting histories and their images 92
    • shaping the digital worlds 92
    • use of digital tools to cope with trauma 92, 93
    • writing identities 93–4
  • after school alternative to detention program (ATDP) environment and writing 264, 266–9
  • agency 228
    • amo...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Digital Diversity, Ideology, and the Politics of a Writing Revolution
  9. I Digital Futures
  10. II Digital Diversity
  11. III Digital Lives
  12. IV Digital Spaces
  13. V Digital Ethics
  14. List of Contributors
  15. Index

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