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Articles for dissertation
Updated on Jun 07, 10
Created on May 22, 09
Category: Computers & Internet
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New literacies means many different things to many different people. To some, new literacies are seen as new social practices (Street, 1995, 2003). Others see new literacies as important new strategies and dispositions essential for online reading comprehension, learning, and communication (Castek, 2008; Coiro, 2003; Henry, 2006; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004). Still others see new literacies as new discourses (Gee, 2007) or new semiotic contexts (Kress, 2003; Lemke, 2002). Still others see literacy as differentiating into multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996) or multimodal contexts (Hull & Schultz, 2002), and some see a construct that juxtaposes several of these orientations (Lankshear & Knobel, 2006). When one includes these different definitions of new literacies with terms such as ICT literacy (International ICT Literacy Panel, 2002) or informational literacy (Hirsh, 1999; Kuiper & Volman, 2008; Webber & Johnson, 2000), the construct of new literacies becomes even broader. In this breadth, however, there is an opportunity to benefit from the richness of these different perspectives as the research community develops richer theory to direct our collective understanding of Internet use in school settings.
New literacies theory (Coiro et al., 2008; Leu et al., 2004) works on two levels: uppercase (New Literacies) and lowercase (new literacies). New Literacies, as the broader, more inclusive concept, benefits from work taking place in the multiple lowercase dimensions of new literacies. This is seen as an advantage, not a limitation. It enables the larger theory of New Literacies to keep up with the richness and continuous change that will always define the Internet. Lowercase theories explore either a specific area of new literacies, such as the social communicative transactions occurring with text messaging (e.g., Lam, 2006), or a focused disciplinary base, such as the semiotics of multimodality in online media (e.g., Kress, 2003). Each body of work contributes to the larger, continually changing theory of New Literacies.
What defines this larger theory of New Literacies? A recent review (Coiro et al., 2008) concludes that most lowercase new literacies perspectives share four elements that define the larger theory of New Literacies:
7 items | 5 visits
Articles for dissertation
Updated on Jun 07, 10
Created on May 22, 09
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: