Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood

by Marsh,Jackie; Marsh,Jackie

• ISBN13: 9780415335737
• ISBN10: 0415335736
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-01-10
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media, and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, print media, computer games, mobile phones, and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: media and identity construction; media literacy practices in the home; the changing nature of literacy in technologized societies; and the place of popular and media texts in children's lives and the use of such texts in the curriculum.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of contributors	x
Introduction: Children of the digital age	1	(10)
Jackie Marsh
PART I Changing Childhood Cultures	11	(78)
New textual landscapes, information and early literacy	13	(15)
Victoria Carrington
Ritual, performance and identity construction: Young children's engagement with popular cultural and media texts	28	(23)
Jackie Marsh
Veronica: An asset model of becoming literate	51	(22)
Muriel Robinson
Bernardo Turnbull
Bilingual children's uses of popular culture in text-making	73	(16)
Charmian Kenner
PART II Children and Technologies	89	(74)
Watching Teletubbies: Television and its very young audience	91	(17)
Susan Roberts
Susan Howard
The CD-ROM game: A Toddler engaged in computer-based dramatic play	108	(18)
Cynthia R. Smith
Narrative spaces and multiple identities: Children's textual explorations of console games in home settings	126	(20)
Kate Pahl
`Pronto, chi parla? (Hello, who is it?)': Telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses	146	(17)
Julia Gillen
Beatrice Accorti Gamannossi
Catherine Ann Cameron
PART III Transformative Pedagogies	163	(74)
Popular culture: Views of parents and educators	165	(18)
Leonie Arthur
Barbie meets Bob the Builder at the Workstation: Learning to write on screen	183	(18)
Guy Merchant
Resistance, power-tricky, and colorless energy: What engagement with everyday popular culture texts can teach us about learning, and literacy	201	(18)
Vivian Vasquez
Behind the scenes: Making movies in early years classrooms	219	(18)
Helen Nixon
Barbara Comber
Afterword	237	(3)
Index	240