As digital platforms become increasingly common and even the norm for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate neatly to these new contexts. This edited volume explores the complex relationship between digital platforms and literacies, understanding that they have become an unavoidable part of the literacy and education ecosystem. The chapters address a range of contexts and considerations around the social, technical, and economic complexities of platform technologies and how they have remade literacy teaching and learning. Insightful and innovative, this is key reading for literacy scholars, researchers, and graduate students.
As digital platforms become more common for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate to these contexts. This volume explores the relationship between digital platforms and literacies, understanding they have become an unavoidable part of the literacy and education ecosystem.
Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society Part I: Histories
1.
New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable
Linguistic Constructs
2. Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education:
Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions
3. Waiting on the Platform: The
Journey to and from Manuscript Central
4. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites
of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube
5. Rethinking Affordances and
Constraints in the Platform Era Part II: Pedagogies
6. Teachers Use of
Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data
Literacy, and Unexpected Labor
7. Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary
Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice
8.
Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance
9.
Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student
Teaching Simulation Software
10. Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital
Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies
for Pre-service Teachers Part III: Possibilities
11. As We May Mark
12.
Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth
Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach
13. Between
Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation
14.
Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to Talk
Back to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism Afterword: Some Theoretical
and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies
T. Philip Nichols is Associate Professor of English Education at Baylor University.
Antero Garcia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.
