New Literacies Everyday Practices and Social Learning

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Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-08-01
Publisher(s): Open Univ Pr
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Summary

Like a compass guiding you to what's important and why in this rapidly evolving field, this new edition is utterly stimulating but also thoughtful and measured. Daniel Cassany, Literacy Researcher and Teacher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain The new edition of this popular book takes a fresh look at what it means to think of literacies as social practices. The book explores what is distinctively 'new' within a range of currently popular everyday ways of generating, communicating and negotiating meanings. Revised, updated and significantly reconceptualised throughout, the book includes: Closer analysis of new literacies in terms of active collaboration A timely discussion of using wikis and other collaborative online writing resources Updated and expanded accounts of digital remix and blogging practices An explanation of social learning and collaborative platforms for social learning A fresh focus on online social networking A new batch of discussion questions and stimulus activities The importance of social learning for becoming proficient in many new literacy practices, and the significance of new media for expanding the reach and potential of social learning are discussed in the final part of the book. New Literacies 3/econcludes by describing empirical cases of social learning approaches mediated by collaborative learning platforms. This book is essential reading for students and academics within literacy studies, cultural or communication studies and education.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgements

Part 1: New Literacies: Concepts and Theory
From ‘reading’ to ‘new’ literacies
Literacies: practice, Discourse, and encoded texts
‘New’ literacies: technologies and values

Part 2: New Literacies: Some Everyday Practices
New literacies and social practices of digital remixing
Blogs and wikis: participatory and collaborative literacy practices
Everyday practices of online social networking

Part 3 New Literacies and Social Learning
Social learning, ‘push’ and ‘pull’, and building platforms for collaborative learning
Social learning and new literacies in formal education

Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index

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