Handbook of Writing, Literacies, and Education in Digital Cultures

At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming daily life and education. The chapter topics―identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes―are organized thematically in five sections: Digital FuturesDigital DiversityDigital LivesDigital SpacesDigital Ethics This is an essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice. It will enable new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.CRT, WOK - stay away from this one. There should be a category called Garbage Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Digital Diversity, Ideology, and the Politics of a Writing Revolution Section I: Digital Futures Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Practices, Networks, and Flows of Literacies Chapter 2 Sensory Literacies, the Body, and Digital Media Chapter 3 Experiencing Electracy: Digital Writing and the Emerging Communicative Landscapes of Youth Composing Selves Chapter 4 Fostering Impossible Possibles through Critical Media Literacies Section II: Digital Diversity Chapter 5 Digital Divides and Social Inclusion Chapter 6 Beyond the Techno-Missionary Narrative: Digital Literacy and Necropolitics Chapter 7 Integrating and Humanizing Knowledgeable Agents of the Digital and Black Feminist Thought in Digital Literacy Research Chapter 8 Global Refugee Crisis: Literacy Concerns and Media Coverage Chapter 9 Race and Racism in Digital Media: What Can Critical Race Theory Contribute to Research on Techno-Cultures? Section III: Digital Lives Chapter 10 Embodiment and Literacy in a Digital Age: The Case of Handwriting Chapter 11 Playful Literacies and Practices of Making in Children’s Imaginaries Chapter 12 Digital Geographies Chapter 13 Youths’ Global Engagement in Digital Writing Ecologies Chapter 14 Literate Identities in Fan-Based Online Affinity Spaces Section IV: Digital Spaces Chapter 15 Assembling Literacies in Virtual Play Chapter 16 Space, Time, and Production: Games and the New Frontier of Digital Literacies Chapter 17 Digital Metroliteracies: Space, Diversity, and Identity Chapter 18 Critically Reading Image in Digital Spaces and Digital Times Chapter 19 The Quantified Writer: Data Traces in Education Section V: Digital Ethics Chapter 20 Digital Ethics, Political Economy, and the Curriculum: This Changes Everything Chapter 21 Digital Youth and Educational Justice Chapter 22 Composing as Culturing: An American Indian Approach to Digital Ethics Chapter 23 Aesthetics and Text in the Digital Age List of Contributors Index At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. Written by well-known scholars from around the world, it closely attends to the digitalization of writing and literacies that is transforming daily life and education. The chapter topics―identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes―are organized thematically in five sections: * Digital Futures * Digital Diversity * Digital Lives * Digital Spaces * Digital Ethics This is an essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice. It will enable new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.