Migrating Literacies: multimodal texts and digitally enable text making

Abstract: 
This journal article aims to look at the usage of digital language among millennials and how it is used to engage them in intriguing conversations over the internet. This is especially intriguing to the author because these millennials are the world's next generation of leaders. He examines how the usage of literature is now done online through comments and responses to those who are creating the media, and how they are using these media conversations to encourage intellectual conversations.
Key Concepts:
-The usage of media websites as a platform to engage in conversations: Youths are able to engage in conversation with one another through the digital world in a way that has never been done before. They can now respond to one another and express their ideas on an issue much faster and more effectively than intellectuals ever could in the past. This is interesting because the "language of the youth" most always has a negative connotation. This author, however, aims to defy this connotation by proving that the language of the youth is much more intellectual and increasingly growing through digital mediums. 
-The expression of youth identity through online conversations: Social websites allow youths to express their ideas. These conversations spark the intellectual being in youths, thus allowing them to engage in active conversations with others on an important topic. These conversations are conducted through comments written about a piece or through social media sites.
-The usage of YouTube in the research process: The authors examines the YouTube pages of young boys to see how they interact intellectually with one another through digital language. 
Examples:
Occupy Wall Street- Occupy Wall Street was generated through online conversations. Millions of people were able to educate themselves on this issue through social media conversations, eventually leading them to band together and conduct large protests in major cities. Digital conversations allow millennials to engage with one another globally and education one another, bringing together a little knowledge from everyone. This is exactly what happened when one person sparked a conversation on a matter that was important to them, allowing it to reach millions of others who also had an opinion on the issue. This led to the major protests, and is now a part of history.
Keywords:
-Multimodality
-Text
-Digital Technologies
Citations:
Domingo, M. (2014). Migrating Literacies:multimodal
texts and digitally enable text making. Text & Talk, 261-282.