1st Edition
Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures
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.
Preface Kathy A. Mills
Acknowledgments
Introduction Digital Diversity, Ideology, and the Politics of a Writing Revolution
Kathy A. Mills & Amy Stornaiuolo
Section I: Digital Futures
Section I Introduction Digital Futures
Kathy A. Mills
Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Practices, Networks, and Flows of Literacies
Amy Stornaiuolo, Glynda Hull, & Matthew Hall
Chapter 2 Sensory Literacies, the Body, and Digital Media
Kathy A. Mills, Len Unsworth, & Beryl Exley
Chapter 3 Experiencing Electracy: Digital Writing and the Emerging Communicative Landscapes of Youth Composing Selves
Anna Smith & Jon Wargo
Chapter 4 Fostering Impossible Possibles through Critical Media Literacies
Jessica Zacher Pandya & Noah Asher Golden
Section II: Digital Diversity
Section II Introduction Digital Diversity
Jessica Zacher Pandya
Chapter 5 Digital Divides and Social Inclusion
Mark Warschauer & Tamara Tate
Chapter 6 Beyond the Techno-Missionary Narrative: Digital Literacy and Necropolitics
Elizabeth Losh
Chapter 7 Integrating and Humanizing Knowledgeable Agents of the Digital and Black Feminist Thought in Digital Literacy Research
Tisha Lewis Ellison
Chapter 8 Global Refugee Crisis: Literacy Concerns and Media Coverage
Ariel Loring & Vaidehi Ramanathan
Chapter 9 Race and Racism in Digital Media: What Can Critical Race Theory Contribute to Research on Techno-cultures?
Kathy A. Mills & Amanda Godley
Section III: Digital Lives
Section III Introduction Digital Lives
Anna Smith
Chapter 10 Embodiment and Literacy in a Digital Age: The Case of Handwriting
Christina Haas & Megan McGrath
Chapter 11 Playful Literacies and Practices of Making in Children’s Imaginaries
Karen E. Wohlwend, Beth A. Buchholz, & Carmen Liliana Medina
Chapter 12 Digital Geographies
Ty Hollett, Nathan C. Phillips & Kevin M. Leander
Chapter 13 Youths’ Global Engagement in Digital Writing Ecologies
Donna E. Alvermann & Bradley Robinson
Chapter 14 Literate Identities in Fan-Based Online Affinity Spaces
Jayne C. Lammers, Alecia Marie Magnifico, & Jen Scott Curwood
Section IV: Digital Spaces
Section IV Introduction Digital Spaces
Kathy A. Mills
Chapter 15 Assembling Literacies in Virtual Play
Chris Bailey, Cathy Burnett, & Guy Merchant
Chapter 16 Space, Time, and Production: Games and the New Frontier of Digital Literacies
Antero Garcia
Chapter 17 Digital Metroliteracies: Space, Diversity and Identity
Sender Dovchin & Alastair Pennycook
Chapter 18 Critically Reading Image in Digital Spaces and in Digital Times
Peggy Albers, Vivian M. Vasquez, & Jerome C. Harste
Chapter 19 The Quantified Writer: Data Traces in Education
Anna Smith, Bill Cope, & Mary Kalantzis
Section V: Digital Ethics
Section V Introduction Digital Ethics
Amy Stornaiuolo
Chapter 20 Digital Ethics, Political Economy and the Curriculum: This Changes Everything
Allan Luke, Julian Sefton-Green, Phil Graham, Douglas Kellner, & James Ladwig
Chapter 21 Digital Youth and Educational Justice
Lalitha Vasudevan, Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, & Cristina Salazar Gallardo
Chapter 22 Composing as Culturing: An American Indian Approach to Digital Ethics
Kristin L. Arola
Chapter 23 Aesthetics and Text in the Digital Age
Theo van Leeuwen
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
Kathy A. Mills is a Professor of Literacies and Digital Cultures at Learning Sciences Institute Australia at Australian Catholic University, Australia.
Amy Stornaiuolo is an Assistant Professor in the Reading, Writing, and Literacy program of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Anna Smith is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Illinois State University, USA.
Jessica Zacher Pandya is the Chair of Liberal Studies and Professor of Teacher Education and Liberal Studies at California State University, Long Beach, USA.