Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture – Revised edition (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

This revised edition of Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture features a variety of digital tools for humanizing pedagogy. For example, the book examines numerous artistic representations of young people’s self-selected graphic novels and fan fiction as part of an in-class multi-genre unit on fandom. This edition makes concrete connections between what the research portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and school media specialists know to be the case in their interactions with young people at the middle and high school level. 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. Cover Contents Introduction (Donna E. Alvermann) Chapter 1: Connect(ed) Learning: Fostering Digital Social Imagination Within a Humanizing Educational Framework (Danielle Filipiak) Chapter 2: Multimodal Pedagogies: Playing, Teaching, and Learning with Adolescents’ Digital Literacies (Lalitha Vasudevan, Tiffany DeJaynes, and Stephanie Schmier) Chapter 3: The Literacy Practices of an Adolescent Webcomics Creator (Stergios Botzakis and Jason DeHart) Chapter 4: 4 Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide/When Social Networking was Enuf: A Black Feminist Perspective on Literacy Online (David E. Kirkland) Chapter 5: Fandom: Exploring Adolescent Pop Culture through Multiple Literacies (Rachel Kaminski Sanders) Chapter 6: Textual Play, Satire, and Counter Discourses of Street Youth Zining Practices (Theresa Rogers and Kari-Lynn Winters) Chapter 7: Digital Literacies and Hip Hop Texts: The Potential for Pedagogy (Jairus Joaquin) Chapter 8: Digital Media Literacy: Connecting Young People’s Identities, Creative Production, and Learning about Video Games (Michael Dezuanni) Chapter 9: 'Experts on the Field’: Redefining Literacy Boundaries (Amanda Gutierrez and Catherine Beavis) Chapter 10: "I Think They’re Being Wired Differently”: Secondary Teachers’ Cultural Models of Adolescents and Their Online Literacies (Kelly Chandler-Olcott and Elizabeth Lewis) Afterword (Margaret Carmody Hagood) Contributors Index