| Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture & Reading & Writing Online Contributor(s): Knobel, Michele (Editor), Lankshear, Colin (Editor), Peters, Michael Adrian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1433103338 ISBN-13: 9781433103339 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $134.71 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 2009005539 |
| Series: New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 221 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the powerful role of popular culture in the daily online literacy practices of young people. Whether as subject matter, discourse, or through rhetorical patterns, popular culture dominates both the form and the content of online reading and writing. In order to understand not only how but why online technologies have changed literacy and popular culture practices, this book looks at online participatory popular culture from MySpace and Facebook pages to fan forums to fan fiction. Interviews and observations reveal the skills and practices students develop, as they sit multitasking at their computers, across popular culture genres and electronic media. For educators, the book provides significant insights into popular culture literacy practices, thus illuminating how students are making meaning and performing identity every day as they read and write online. |