Adolescents and Instant Messaging : Literacy, Language, and Identity Development in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9783639170689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 156 str.

Gloria E. Jacobs

Opis

What are the language and literacy practices ofadolescents as they engage in instant messaging inthe 21st century? The research described in this bookworks to build an understanding of what youth aredoing when they are online. To do so, Jacobs draws ontwo years of ethnographic data, including videotapesof the actual in-the-moment construction of instantmessages as well as what was happening in the roomdoing those online sessions. She uses CriticalDiscourse Analysis and Cultural Historical ActivityTheory to make sense of the data and argues thatinstant messaging is a dynamic and fluid activityconsisting of a mix of conventions. Macro-analysisindicates that the outcome of engagement in instantmessaging is the construction of a person who isadept at developing the skills, attributes, andachievements necessary for success in the 21stcentury economy.

O autorze

Gloria E. Jacobs holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester's
Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human
Development in Rochester, New York. She is an Assistant
Professor of Literacy Education at St. John Fisher College, also
in Rochester, NY. She researches adolescent use of digital
technology and literacy.