ABSTRACT
At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming daily life and education. The chapter topics—identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes—are organized thematically in five sections:
- Digital Futures
- Digital Diversity
- Digital Lives
- Digital Spaces
- Digital Ethics
This is an essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice. It will enable new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.
Preface Kathy A. Mills Introduction Digital Diversity, Ideology, and the Politics of a Writing Revolution Kathy A. Mills & Amy Stornaiuolo Section I: Digital Futures Section I Introduction Digital Futures Kathy A. Mills 1. Cosmopolitan Practices, Networks, and Flows of Literacies Amy Stornaiuolo, Glynda Hull, & Matthew Hall 2. Sensory Literacies, the Body, and Digital Media Kathy A. Mills, Len Unsworth, & Beryl Exley 3. Experiencing Electracy: Digital Writing and the Emerging Communicative Landscapes of Youth Composing Selves Anna Smith & Jon Wargo 4. Fostering Impossible Possibles through Critical Media Literacies Jessica Zacher Pandya & Noah Asher Golden Section II: Digital Diversity Section II Introduction Digital Diversity Jessica Zacher Pandya .5 Digital Divides and Social Inclusion Mark Warschauer & Tamara Tate 6. Beyond the Techno-Missionary Narrative: Digital Literacy and Necropolitics Elizabeth Losh 7. Integrating and Humanizing Knowledgeable Agents of the Digital and Black Feminist Thought in Digital Literacy Research Tisha Lewis Ellison 8. Global Refugee Crisis: Literacy Concerns and Media Coverage Ariel Loring & Vaidehi Ramanathan 9. Race and Racism in Digital Media: What Can Critical Race Theory Contribute to Research on Techno-cultures? Kathy A. Mills & Amanda Godley Section III: Digital Lives Section III Introduction Digital Lives Anna Smith 10. Embodiment and Literacy in a Digital Age: The Case of Handwriting Christina Haas & Megan McGrath 11. Playful Literacies and Practices of Making in Children’s Imaginaries Karen E. Wohlwend, Beth A. Buchholz, & Carmen Liliana Medina 12. Digital Geographies Ty Hollett, Nathan C. Phillips & Kevin M. Leander 13. Youths’ Global Engagement in Digital Writing Ecologies Donna E. Alvermann & Bradley Robinson 14. Literate Identities in Fan-Based Online Affinity Spaces Jayne C. Lammers, Alecia Marie Magnifico, & Jen Scott Curwood Section IV: Digital Spaces Section IV Introduction Digital Spaces Kathy A. Mills 15. Assembling Literacies in Virtual Play Chris Bailey, Cathy Burnett, & Guy Merchant 16. Space, Time, and Production: Games and the New Frontier of Digital Literacies Antero Garcia 17. Digital Metroliteracies: Space, Diversity and Identity Sender Dovchin & Alastair Pennycook 18. Critically Reading Image in Digital Spaces and in Digital Times Peggy Albers, Vivian M. Vasquez, & Jerome C. Harste 19. The Quantified Writer: Data Traces in Education Anna Smith, Bill Cope, & Mary Kalantzis Section V: Digital Ethics Section V Introduction Digital Ethics Amy Stornaiuolo 20. Digital Ethics, Political Economy and the Curriculum: This Changes Everything Allan Luke, Julian Sefton-Green, Phil Graham, Douglas Kellner, & James Ladwig 21. Digital Youth and Educational Justice Lalitha Vasudevan, Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, & Cristina Salazar Gallardo 22. Composing as Culturing: An American Indian Approach to Digital Ethics Kristin L. Arola 23. Aesthetics and Text in the Digital Age Theo van Leeuwen
