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Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital Worldreviewed by Florence R. Sullivan - 2004 Title: Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World Author(s): Donna E. Alvermann (Editor) Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York ISBN: 0820455733 , Pages: 235, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com The varied theoretical and epistemological approaches to
discussing adolescents and literacies taken by the authors
presented in this edited volume reflect the depth of the complexity
of the central questions at issue in the text – what are new
literacies? How are these literacies shaped by both new capitalism
and new digital technologies? And how are adolescents and
teachers alike responding to these new literacies?
While the canonical definition of literacy (print and oral
– reading, writing and speaking) is easily understood, the
definition of new literacies is elusive and potentially in
continual flux, tied as it is to the rapid development and
diffusion of new digital technologies. The authors in this
book broadly sketch the landscape of the new literacy in terms of
youth culture, the attention economy and the development of
identity (Lewis & Finders; Knobel & Lankshear) digital
technologies and critical literacy (Luke, C.; Beach & Bruce),
generational literacy practices (King & O’Brien; Hagood,
Stevens & Reingking; Young, Dillon & Moje;) the demands of
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- Florence Sullivan
Teachers College E-mail Author FLORENCE R. SULLIVAN is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive Psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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