Design Literacies : Learning and Innovation in the Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9780415559621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 144 str.

Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau;Jennifer Rowsell

Opis

Design Literacies: Learning from Digital Environments explores new ways of meaning making by examining the practices, stories, and products of new and digital media producers with the goal of understanding the logic of marketplace production. Based on interviews with thirty new media and digital technology producers, including designers of videogames, community activists and marketers of digital technologies, Design Literacies looks at the shared patterns and common themes and offers a window into contemporary out-of-school practices, a language to describe these practices and a pedagogy that better meets students' needs in this new media and digital age. With a foreword by Gunther Kress and an afterword by James Gee, both key figures in this field, Design Literacies: Learning from Digital Environments will be of interest to postgraduate students of applied linguistics and education.

O autorze

Mary Sheridan is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Wyoming, USA. Previous publications include Girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activism in the GirlZone (2008) and Feminism and composition: A critical sourcebook. (Co-edited with Gesa Kirsch, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, & Faye Spencer Maor, 2003). Jennifer Rowsell is Assistant Professor of English Education in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, USA. Previous publications include Literacy and Education:Understanding New Literacy Studies in the Classroom (co-written with Kate Pahl) and Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies (co-written with Kate Pahl), and Family Literacy Experiences. Series Editor: David Barton Literacies Education/Applied Linguistics