A New Literacies Sampler (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
«An insightful and highly provocative volume! At a time when schools are under increasing pressure to revamp for a globalized, networked, and informational age, there is an unfortunate paucity of deep reflection on what it takes to prepare our young people to be active participants, citizens, learners, and designers of a networked society. ‘A New Literacies Sampler’ fills this gap amply and is destined to be an important milestone in literacy studies and education.» (Wan Shun Eva Lam, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)«Knobel and Lankshear have assembled the most illuminating blend of scholarly ‘samples’ I have seen for revealing the architecture of new literacies. These cogently written chapters build upon each other to clarify and critique new mediums and new practices for collective participation in distributed meaning-making enabled by user-driven technologies. This edited volume is the best guide to understanding the emergent techno/ethos that constitutes new literacies in the era of Web 2.0.» (Jabari Mahiri, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley)