Overview

Literacy, Media, Technology considers the continued significance of popular culture forms such as postcards, film, television, games, virtual worlds and social media for educators. Following multiple pathways through technological innovation, the contributors reflect on the way in which digital and portable devices lead to new and emerging forms of reading, participating and creating. Rejecting linear conceptualisations of progression, they explore how time is not linear as technological advances are experienced in multiple ways linked to different personal, social, political and economic trajectories. The contributors describe a range of practices from formal and informal education spaces and interrogate some of the continuities and discontinuities associated with literacy, media and technology at a time when rapidly evolving communicative practices often meet intransigence in educational systems. The chapters adopt diverse forms: historical perspectives, personal story and reflection, project reports, document analysis, critical reviews of resources, ethnographic accounts, and analyses of meaning-making within and beyond educational institutions. Together, they provide multiple insights into the diverse and fluid relationships between literacy, media, technology, and everyday life, and the many ways in which these relationships are significant to educational research and practice.

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Author:   Becky Parry (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Cathy Burnett (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,  Professor Guy Merchant (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9781350075030

ISBN 10:   1350075035
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   28 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Foreword, Donna Alvermann Acknowledgements 1. Literacy, Media, Technology, Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett and Becky Parry. Pause 2. The Picture Postcard at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Instagram, Snapchat or Selfies of an Earlier Age?, Julia Gillen 3. Television as a New Medium, Margaret Mackey 4. From the Wild Frontier of Davy Crockett to the Wintery Fiords of Frozen: Changes in Media Consumption, Play and Literacy from the 1950s to the 2010s, Jackie Marsh Record 5. Constricting or Constructing Everyday Lives?: Literacies and Inequality, Susan Jones 6. Family Stories, Texts, and Meaning: A Study of Artifacts during a Digital Storytelling Workshop, Tisha Lewis Ellison 7. Mapping Place, Affect, and Futures in an Adolescent’s New Media Making: Schizoanalytic Cartographies, Christian Ehret Play 8. ‘Finger Flowment’ and Moving Image Language: Learning Filmmaking with Tablet Devices, John Potter and Theo Bryer 9. Digital Personal Stories: Bringing Together Generations and Enriching Communities, Natalia Kucirkova Rewind 10. Time Travels in Literacy and Pedagogy: From Script to Screen, Becky Parry, Lucy Taylor and Nadia Haerizadeh-Yazdi 11. Children’s Writing in the 21st Century: Mastery, Crafting and Control, Clare Dowdall 12. How Does Boy 17 Read a Game?, Julian McDougall Fast Forward 13. Postdigital Literacies: Materiality, Mobility and the Aesthetics of Recruitment, Thomas Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne and Bjorn Nansen 14. Assembling Virtual Play in the Classroom, Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant Standby 15. Past, Present, Future, Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant and Becky Parry Index

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A compelling guide to how literacy, media and technology have converged. Read it to understand how communication practices have changed. Prescribe it for students to challenge their assumptions about available technologies. Recommend it to doctoral candidates to push their thinking in new directions. * Ilana Snyder, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia * Highlighting provocative connections between our present day literacy practices and those from the past, this engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays uncovers valuable insights about how we shape, and are shaped by, media and technology. Calling attention to troubling gaps between media research and educational practice, the volume has important implications for curriculum and pedagogy. * Carrie James, Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA *

Author Information

Becky Parry is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She is author of Children, Film and Literacy (Palgrave, 2013). Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely in the field of literacy and technology and is on the editorial boards for Literacy and Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is widely published and known internationally for his work on literacy and digital technology.

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