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Diversity and critical social engagement: How changing technologies enable new modes of literacy in changing circumstances

Bruce, Bertram C.

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Title
Diversity and critical social engagement: How changing technologies enable new modes of literacy in changing circumstances
Author(s)
Bruce, Bertram C.
Issue Date
2002
Keyword(s)
  • Diversity
  • Social engagement
  • new media
  • Digital literacy
  • adolescents
  • information ecologies
Abstract
This chapter takes a historical perspective on the notion of new literacies (Bruce, 1998), raising the question of how literacies, technologies, and social circumstances co- evolve and what changes in literacy practices mean for adolescents today. It presents first the case that a fundamental transformation is visible already in the literacy practices of young people, but follows that with questions about what this change really means. It then considers a framework for a critical examination of literacy and technology and its implications for research and teaching.
Publisher
Peter Lang
Series/Report Name or Number
New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, Vol. 7
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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