Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age

by P. Sheridan; Mary

• ISBN13: 9780415559645
• ISBN10: 0415559642
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-06-21
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Design Literacies: Learning in Digital Environments explores new ways of meaning making by examining the practices, stories, and products of new and digital media producers with the goal of understanding the logic of marketplace production.Based on interviews with thirty new media and digital technology producers, including designers of videogames, community activists and marketers of digital technologies, Design Literacies looks at the shared patterns and common themes and offers a window into contemporary out-of-school practices, a language to describe these practices and a pedagogy that better meets students' needs in this new media and digital age.With a foreward by Gunther Kress and an afterword by Deborah Brandt, both key figures in this field, Design Literacies: Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age will be of interest to post graduate students of applied linguistics and education.

Author Biography

Mary P. Sheridan is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Wyoming, USA. Her previous publications include Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone (2008) and Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook (co-edited with Gesa Kirsch, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, and Faye Spencer Maor, 2003). Jennifer Rowsell is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education and Coordinator of the English Education Program at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Her previous publications include Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies (co-written with Kate Pahl, 2006), Family Literacy Experiences (2006), and Literacy and Education: Understanding New Literacy Studies in the Classroom (co-written with Kate Pahl, 2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
The problem-solving logic of digital media production	p. 1
Literacy and learning in a Web 2.0 world	p. 4
Effects of the social and semiotic turn for digital media literacy	p. 8
The people of Design Literacies	p. 12
Chapters: setting the stage	p. 23
Practices and language of design	p. 25
Case studies: the activist, the businessman, and the scholar	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 39
"Fearless creativity": participation structures and sponsorship in dense media networks	p. 43
Structures of participation	p. 45
Case studies: the seeker, the gamers, and the architect	p. 47
Conclusion	p. 69
The art of spin	p. 72
Case studies: the communicator, the novice, and the visionary	p. 75
Conclusion	p. 84
Modes spinning stories	p. 85
Modes	p. 86
Modal choice	p. 86
Case studies: the storyteller, the editor, and the historian	p. 90
From concrete modes to abstract modes	p. 100
Conclusion	p. 101
Learning in today's age of composition	p. 102
Inhabiting design literacies	p. 103
Teaching design literacies	p. 112
Afterword	p. 114
Notes	p. 117
References	p. 120
Index	p. 129
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