The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacieswhat peopledo with literacy in particular social situationshas focused attention toward understanding the connections between reading and writing practices and the broader social goals and cultural practices these literacy practices help to shape. This collection brings together situated research studies of literacy across a range of specific contexts, covering everyday, educational, and workplace domains. Its contribution is to provide, through an empirical framework, a larger cumulative understanding of literacy across diverse contexts.
Recenzijos
With an exemplary mix of senior and junior scholars and of people from Education and Composition Studies, this book breathes new life into the New Literacy Studies. One of the best collections of work on sociocultural and experimentally-situated approaches to literacy to have appeared in a long while.
James Paul Gee
Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and Regents Professor
Arizona State University
"Throughout this collection, the reader sees the editors point about the value of studying how people use literacy. These subjects are easy to visualize and bring to life how literacy practices impact the individual and how each individuals literacy choices contribute to the evolution of culture in the 21st century." Laurie Shirley Esposito
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1 Introduction: Methodological Matters and the Invisibility of Literacy |
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Part I Literacies in Private Lives |
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2 Researching Social Media Literacies as Emergent Practice: Changes in Twitter Use after Year Two of a Longitudinal Case Study |
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3 Building Social Worlds: Examining Women's Uses of Romance Novels |
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4 Seniors' Uses of Literacy to Gain Bodily Control in Medical Encounters |
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5 Digital African American Language: A Corpus Analysis of Text Messages |
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6 Reconfiguring the "Patient" Identity: Transcontextual Writing Practices of a Person with Multiple Sclerosis |
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7 Physically Present and Digitally Active: Locating Ecologies of Writing on Social Networks |
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Part II Literacies in Public (Academic) Lives |
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8 Academic Consequences of Performing for Friends in English Language Arts Classrooms: The Significance of Culture and Language |
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9 Stepping Out with the Fop: Literacies of Embodiment and Becoming in Youth Drama |
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10 English Language Literacy and the Prediction of Academic Success in and beyond the Pathway Program |
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11 Emotionally Exhausting: Investigating the Role of Emotion in Teacher-Response Practices |
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Part III Literacies in Working Lives |
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12 First Encounters in Professional Cyberspace: Writers' Exploration of LinkedIn |
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13 Literacy Practices in Lunch Pails: Invisible Literacies of the Dabbawalas |
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14 Enacting Professional Literate Practice: A Snapshot of One Graphic Designer's Process |
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15 Delivering the News: Literacy and Collaborative Response Practices at Midwest Utility |
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16 Distributed Labor, Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop |
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17 Conclusion: Research on Literacy in Practice: Domains, Maps, and Emerging Challenges |
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| Contributors |
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Patrick Thomas is Assistant Professor of English, University of Dayton, USA.
Pamela Takayoshi is Professor of English, Kent State University, USA.
