Digital Literacies

With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these modes has a great impact on our learning and literacy. In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen presents a new approach to the study and research of the area.

List of contents

1."No need to build caves," – Digital literacies: an introduction 2. "Linguistics is a discipline with its own history," - Language, linguistics and digital literacies 3. "Different people understand different aspects of it, but nobody knows it all," - An autoethnographic approach 4. "Hello" - A dialogical approach to researching learning by new users of communications technologies 5. "SPbT whispers: Unsquishing Rowan SParker," - Approaches to the discourses of Schome Park 6. "I fall in and out of love with Twitter," - A case study of the development of Twitter in a professional, public media ecology: Jonathan Agnew and cricket 7. "Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the whole world," –Conclusions

About the author

Julia Gillen is Director of the Literacy Research Centre and Senior Lecturer in Digital Literacies at Lancaster University, UK. She is co-editor of Virtual Literacies (Routledge, 2013).

Summary

With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these modes has a great impact on our learning and literacy. In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen presents a new approach to the study and research of the area.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Gillen, Julia (Lancaster University Gillen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415660891
• ISBN: 978-0-415-66089-1
• No. of pages: 190
• Series: Literacies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society