This book examines the powerful role of popular culture in the daily online literacy practices of young people. Whether as subject matter, discourse, or through rhetorical patterns, popular culture dominates both the form and the content of online reading and writing. In order to understand not only how but why online technologies have changed literacy and popular culture practices, this book looks at online participatory popular culture from MySpace and Facebook pages to fan forums to fan fiction.
Interviews and observations reveal the skills and practices students develop, as they sit multitasking at their computers, across popular culture genres and electronic media. For educators, the book provides significant insights into popular culture literacy practices, thus illuminating how students are making meaning and performing identity every day as they read and write online.
| ISBN: | 9781433103339 |
| Publication date: | 22nd June 2009 |
| Author: | Bronwyn T Williams |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 221 pages |
| Series: | New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies |
| Genres: |
Secondary schools Cultural studies Educational: Social sciences, social studies Internet guides and online services Higher education, tertiary education Speaking in public: advice and guides Communication studies Information technology: general topics |
This book examines the powerful role of popular culture in the daily online literacy practices of young people. Whether as subject matter, discourse, or through rhetorical patterns, popular culture dominates both the form and the content of online reading and writing.
Shimmering Literacies features in the following genres: Secondary schools, Cultural studies, Educational: Social sciences, social studies, Internet guides and online services, Higher education, tertiary education, Speaking in public: advice and guides, Communication studies, Information technology: general topics
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Shimmering Literacies was written by Bronwyn T Williams and published by P. Lang an imprint of Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Shimmering Literacies has 221 pages
Yes it is part of New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies series