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Digital Media, Culture and Education: Theorising Third Space Literacies
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Digital Media, Culture and Education: Theorising Third Space LiteraciesDigital Media, Culture and Education: Theorising Third Space Literacies

This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings. The book presents research and thinking about new dynamic literacies, porous expertise, digital making/coding/remixing, curation, storying in digital media, open learning, the networked educator and a number of related topics; it further addresses and develops the notion of a ‘third space literacies’ in contexts for learning.
 
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Tags: learning, digital, media, around, technology, Literacies, Culture, Digital
Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses - Fifth Edition (2015)
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Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses - Fifth Edition (2015)

In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’. This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged.
 
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Tags: language, literacy, approaches, Literacies, sociocultural
Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres
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Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres

Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres examines the possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking “what else is possible.” The genres of film, audio, photography, graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations, virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated to discern both their capabilities and limitations.
 
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Tags: communication, their, Multimodal, Genres, Literacies
Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents
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Multilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in AdolescentsMultilingual Learners and Academic Literacies: Sociocultural Contexts of Literacy Development in Adolescents

The contributing authors provide divergent definitions of academic literacies and use dissimilar theoretical and methodological approaches to study literacy development. Nevertheless, all chapters reflect a shared conceptual framework for examining academic literacies as situated, overlapping, meaning-making practices. This framework foregrounds students’ participation in valued disciplinary literacy practices.
 
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Tags: literacies, literacy, practices, academic, framework, Multilingual
Understanding Digital Literacies
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Understanding Digital Literacies

Assuming no knowledge of linguistics, Understanding Digital Literacies provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. It supplies readers with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic and social impact of a host of new digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems and debates surrounding the topic, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices.
 
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Tags: Literacies, topic, Understanding, Digital, practices