Mapping Recreational Literacies
Subtitle: Contemporary Adults at Play (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: September 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780820497068
Subjects: Computers & Technology; Technology & Engineering; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Literacy; Media literacy; Social Aspects; Technological literacy; Science/Mathematics
Description: "This book explores what it means to be a literate adult today, with the help of nine adults ranging in age from 19 to 36. It explores their detailed responses to a variety of particular texts: a digital game, an online poem, a picture book, a set of graphic novels. Mapping Recreational Literacies looks at how we make selections in the face of a plethora of textual options, and raises new questions about the importance of adult play with texts, the significance of ownership in a consumer society, and the role of reading both inside and outside of books."--Jacket.