Literacy, Media, Technology Past, Present and Future

by Parry, Becky; Burnett, Cathy; Merchant, Guy

• ISBN13: 9781474257992
• ISBN10: 1474257992
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Literacy, Media, Technology considers the continued significance of popular culture forms such as postcards, film, television, games, virtual worlds and social media for educators. Following multiple pathways through technological innovation, the contributors reflect on the way in which digital and portable devices lead to new and emerging forms of reading, participating and creating. Rejecting linear conceptualisations of progression, they explore how time is not linear as technological advances are experienced in multiple ways linked to different personal, social, political and economic trajectories. The contributors describe a range of practices from formal and informal education spaces and interrogate some of the continuities and discontinuities associated with literacy, media and technology at a time when rapidly evolving communicative practices often meet intransigence in educational systems.

The chapters adopt diverse forms: historical perspectives, personal story and reflection, project reports, document analysis, critical reviews of resources, ethnographic accounts, and analyses of meaning-making within and beyond educational institutions. Together, they provide multiple insights into the diverse and fluid relationships between literacy, media, technology, and everyday life, and the many ways in which these relationships are significant to educational research and practice.

Author Biography

Becky Parry is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She is author of Children, Film and Literacy (Palgrave, 2013).

Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely in the field of literacy and technology and is on the editorial boards for Literacy and Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is widely published and known internationally for his work on literacy and digital technology.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Donna Alvermann (The University of Georgia, USA)
Acknowledgements
1. Literacy, Media, Technology, Guy Merchant (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Cathy Burnett (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Becky Parry (University of Nottingham, UK)
Pause
2. The Picture Postcard at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Instagram, Snapchat or Selfies of an Earlier Age?, Julia Gillen (Lancaster University, UK)
3. Television as a New Medium, Margaret Mackey (University of Alberta, Canada)
4. From the Wild Frontier of Davy Crockett to the Wintery Fiords of Frozen: Changes in Media Consumption, Play and Literacy from the 1950s to the 2010s, Jackie Marsh (University of Sheffield, UK)
Record
5. Constricting or Constructing Everyday Lives?: Literacies and Inequality, Susan Jones (University of Nottingham, UK)
6. Family Stories, Texts, and Meaning: A Study of Artifacts during a Digital Storytelling Workshop, Tisha Lewis (Georgia State University, USA)
7. Mapping Place, Affect, and Futures in an Adolescent's New Media Making: Schizoanalytic Cartographies, Christian Ehret (McGill University, Canada)
Play
8. 'Finger Flowment' and Moving Image Language: Learning Filmmaking with Tablet Devices, John Potter and Theo Bryer (Institute of Education, University College London, UK)
9. Digital Personal Stories: Bringing Together Generations and Enriching Communities, Natalia Kucirkova (The Open University, UK)
Rewind
10. Time Travels in Literacy and Pedagogy: From Script to Screen, Becky Parry (University of Leeds, UK), Lucy Taylor (University of Leeds, UK) and Nadia Haerizadeh-Yazdi (University of Surrey, UK)
11. Children's Writing in the 21st Century: Mastery, Crafting and Control, Clare Dowdall (University of Plymouth, UK)
12. How Does Boy 17 Read a Game?, Julian McDougall (University of Bournemouth, UK)
Fast Forward
13. Postdigital Literacies: Materiality, Mobility and the Aesthetics of Recruitment, Thomas Apperley (University of New South Wales, Australia), Darshana Jayemanne (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Bjorn Nansen (University of Melbourne, Australia)
14. Assembling Virtual Play in the Classroom, Cathy Burnett (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) and Guy Merchant (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Standby
15. Past, Present, Future, Cathy Burnett (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Guy Merchant (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Becky Parry (University of Nottingham, UK)
Index