Adolescents and literacies in a digital world
By: edited by Donna E. Alvermann
Contributors: Alvermann, Donna E
Series: New literacies and digital epistemologies -- v. 7; New literacies and digital epistemologies -- v. 7
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Communication in education; Media literacy; Mass media in education; Popular culture
Description: "Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies, this book blends theories of an attention economy, generational differences, communication technologies, and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging, shape-shifting portfolios, critical inquiry, and media production."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-221) and index
Table of contents: title: 1. Diversity and critical social engagement : how changing technologies enable new modes of literacy in changing circumstances; title: 2. Do we have your attention? New literacies, digital technologies, and education of adolescents; title: 3. Adolescents' multiliteracies and their teachers' needs to know : toward a digital detente; title: 4. Millennials and bobos, Blues clues and Sesame street : a story of our times; title: 5. What do THEY have to teach US? Talkin' cross generations!; title: 6. Imagining literacy teacher education in changing times : considering the views of adult and adolescent collaborators; title: 7. Implied adolescents and implied teachers : a generation gap for new times; title: 8. Shape-shifting portfolios : millennial youth, literacies, and the game of life; title: 9. Re-crafting media and ICT literacies; title: 10. Using digital tools to foster critical inquiry; title: 11. Cut, paste, publish : the production and consumption of Zines; title: 12. What happens to literacies old and new when they're turned into policy