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Record Nr.

UNINA9910545199503321

Autore

Gillen Julia

Titolo

Digital literacies / / Julia Gillen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-415-66093-9

1-317-80182-2

1-315-81353-X

1-317-80183-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 pages) ; : illustrations

Collana

Literacies

Disciplina

302.23/1

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media - Technological innovations

Internet literacy

Computer literacy

Information literacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. `No need to build caves': Digital literacies: an introduction -- 2. `Linguistics is a discipline with its own history': Language, linguistics and digital literacies -- 3. `Different people understand different aspects of it, but nobody knows it all': An autoethnographic approach -- 4. `Hello': A dialogical approach to researching learning by new users of communications technologies -- 5. `SPbT whispers: Unsquishing Rowan SParker': Approaches to the discourses of Schome Park -- 6. `I fall in and out of love with Twitter': A case study of the development of Twitter in a professional, public media ecology -- Jonathan Agnew and cricket -- 7. `Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the whole world': Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning.In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a substantial extent Linguistics has failed to rise to the opportunities



presented by studying language in digital contexts. Assuming no existing knowledge, and drawing from a wide range of research projects, she presents a range of approaches to the study of writing and reading language online.--