The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacieswhat people do 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.
1. Introduction: Methodological Matters and the Invisibility of Literacy
Patrick Thomas & Pamela Takayoshi Part 1: Literacies in Private Lives
2.
Researching Social Media Literacies as Emergent Practice: Changes in Twitter
Use after Year Two of a Longitudinal Case Study Stacey Pigg
3. Building
Social Worlds: Examining Womens Uses of Romance Novels Stephanie Moody
4.
Seniors Uses of Literacy to Gain Bodily Control in Medical Encounters Yvonne
R. Teems
5. Digital African American Language: A Corpus Analysis of Text
Messages Jennifer Cunningham
6. Reconfiguring the "Patient" Identity:
Transcontextual Writing Practices of a Person with Multiple Sclerosis Patrick
Thomas
7. Physically Present and Digitally Active: Locating Ecologies of
Writing on Social Networks Amber M. Buck Part 2: Literacies in Public
(Academic) Lives
8. Academic Consequences of Performing for Friends in ELA
Classrooms: The Significance of Culture and Language Mary Beth Ressler &
Mollie Blackburn
9. Stepping Out with the Fop: Literacies of Embodiment and
Becoming in Youth Drama Treavor Bogard
10. English Language Literacy and the
Prediction of Academic Success in and beyond the Pathway Program Jennifer E.
Haan & Karyn E. Mallett
11. Emotionally Exhausting: Investigating the Role of
Emotion in Teacher Response Practices Nicole Caswell Part 3: Literacies in
Working Lives
12. First Encounters in Professional Cyberspace: Writers
Explorations of LinkedIn Elizabeth Tomlinson
13. Literacy Practices in Lunch
Pails: Invisible Literacies of The Dabbawalas Uma Krishnan
14. Enacting
Professional Literate Practice: A Snapshot of One Graphic Designers Process
Lindsay B. Steiner
15. Delivering the News: Literacy and Collaborative
Response Practices at Midwest Utility Jillian Hill
16. Distributed Labor,
Writing, and an Automotive Repair Shop Jeremy Cushman Conclusion: Research on
Literacy in Practice: Domains, Maps, and Emerging Challenges Patricia Sullivan
Patrick Thomas is Assistant Professor of English, University of Dayton, USA.
Pamela Takayoshi is Professor of English, Kent State University, USA.
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