Adolescents’ Online Literacies

This revised edition of features a variety of digital tools for humanizing pedagogy. The contributors of these chapters – educators, consultants, and researchers who span two continents – focus on ways to incorporate and use the digital literacies that young people bring to school.

Donna E. Alvermann is Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. She studies young people’s digital literacies and uses of popular media. Her interactive website (www.becoming3lectric.com) explores challenges to creating and disseminating «original» work and remixes using a Creative Commons license.

Contents: Donna E. Alvermann: Introduction – Danielle Filipiak: Connect(Ed) Learning: Fostering Digital Social Imagination Within a Humanizing Educational Framework – Lalitha Vasudevan/Tiffany DeJaynes/Stephanie Schmier: Multimodal Pedagogies: Playing, Teaching, and Learning with Adolescents’ Digital Literacies – Stergios Botzakis/Jason DeHart: The Literacy Practices of an Adolescent Webcomics Creator – David E. Kirkland: 4 Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide/When Social Networking was Enuf: A Black Feminist Perspective on Literacy Online – Rachel Kaminski Sanders: Fandom: Exploring Adolescent Pop Culture through Multiple Literacies – Theresa Rogers/Kari-Lynn Winters: Textual Play, Satire, and Counter Discourses of Street Youth Zining Practices – Jairus Joaquin: Digital Literacies and Hip Hop Texts: The Potential for Pedagogy – Michael Dezuanni: Digital Media Literacy: Connecting Young People’s Identities, Creative Production, and Learning about Video Games – Amanda Gutierrez/Catherine Beavis: ‘Experts on the Field’: Redefining Literacy Boundaries – Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Elizabeth Lewis: «I Think They’re Being Wired Differently»: Secondary Teachers’ Cultural Models of Adolescents and Their Online Literacies – Margaret Carmody Hagood: Afterword.