Digital Literacies

(Re)Claiming Voices: Digital Storytelling and Second Language Learners

“…Making something and turning it into an artifact we have created is a mode of creative expression (e.g., blogs) that promotes intersubjectivity, or a shared understanding that helps us relate one situation to another (Jenkins, 2013). Gillen (2014) argued the fields of Linguistics and Composition have largely ignored the study of language in digital contexts, and reading and writing language online, even while digital technologies in everyday life are pervasivefrom online teenage communities to the professional use of Twitter in journalism, as well as the power of social media to facilitate social uprisings (i.e., Egypt and the Arab Spring). No matter how we plan (or do not) to incorporate it, digital literacy may no longer be optional for the 21 st century student and global citizen.…”

Literacy-as-event: accounting for relationality in literacy research

“…Indeed, richly drawn accounts of literacy events lie at the heart of some of the most compelling and influential accounts of literacies of the last few decades (e.g. Heath, 1983;Barton & Hamilton, 1998;Gillen, 2014).…”

“…Existing research in New Literacy Studies (NLS) has highlighted the fact that literacy consists of multiple socially and culturally situated practices (Barton, 2007). As patterns of communication have shifted in response to a variety of factors, including technological development, changing demographics and increased population mobility, literacies, together with the orientations, attitudes, practices, and skills associated with them, have continued to diversify and evolve apace (Gillen, 2014). Researchers working in the NLS tradition have spearheaded the development of innovative, creative methodologies that acknowledge this change and complexity (see Albers et al, 2014).…”

Global Citizens Awareness Through Digital Literacy In the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Riview of the Literature

“…In the era of advances in digital technology, it has transformed the way of life and communication in the order of the world community. Most educators assume that this new technology requires new skills to prepare students to still be able to live adapting to the era of 21st century skills, these skills include information skills, media and technology, also known as "digital literacy" [25]. A number of ways of conceptualizing digital literacy have been proposed in a series of four key areas including language skills, information processing, connections, and redesigning or paraphrasing skills [26].…”