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Understanding Digital Literacies A Practical Introduction

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ISBN-10: 0415673151

ISBN-13: 9780415673150

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rodney H. Jones, Christoph A. Hafner

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Assuming no knowledge of linguistics, Understanding Digital Literaciesprovides an accessible and timely introduction to new literacies for university students. It supplies readers with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the discursive structures, linguistic features and the social impact of a host of new media practises. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems and debates surrounding the topic, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices. Features of the book include: An assortment of real-life examples to illustrate…    
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List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 214
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Mediated Me
Mediation
Affordances and constraints
Creativity
Mediation and 'moral panics'
What are 'digital literacies'?
Useful resources
Part I Digital Tools
Information Everywhere
Information and relationships
Organizing data
Networks and organization
Finding and filtering
Conclusion
Useful resources
Hyperreading and Hyperwriting
Hypertext and linking
Reading critically in hypertext
Is hypertext making you stupid?
Interactivity, commenting and participating
Mashups and remixing
Conclusion
Useful resources
Multimodality
From page to screen
Visual design: Laying out the screen
The world in pictures: Designing multimodal texts
Conclusion
Useful Resources
Online Language and Social Interaction
Media effects and user effects
What are we doing when we interact online?
Meaning and creativity
Textual selves
Conclusion
Useful resources
Attention Structures
Digital media and polyfocality
Attention structures
The attention economy and digital literacies
Conclusion
Useful resources
Critical Literacy
Technology and ideology
Mediation
Ideology and the technology of language
Ideology and digital technologies
Conclusion
Useful resources
Part II Digital Practices
Online Cultures and Intercultural Communication
Online cultures as discourse systems
'Cultures-of-use' and 'media ideologies'
Intercultural communication online
Where to now for the global village?
Conclusion
Useful resources
Games, Learning and Literacy
'Reading' and 'writing' in games
Games and identity
Games and learning
Conclusion
Useful resources
Social Networking
We are not files
Who are these people on my Facebook?
Privacy and profit
The presentation of self on social networking sites
Conclusion
Useful resources
Collaboration and Peer Production
Collaboration in writing
Wikinomics and peer production
The wisdom of crowds
Conclusion
Useful resources
Digital Literacies at Work
Literacies for the 'new work order'
The promises and pitfalls of the 'wiki-workplace'
Digital media and the creation of context
Social media and career advancement
Critical perspectives on the 'new work order'
Conclusion
Useful resources
Afterword Mediated Me 2.0
If s all about you
Glossary
References
Index