This book delves into how young people today navigate the ever-changing digital landscape and how it affects their approach to literacy. It uses case studies to demonstrate how digital technologies have given rise to new forms of communication and inquiry, while also exploring how these changes have impacted traditional literacy practices. Recommended for educators, researchers, and parents interested in understanding how technology is shaping the literacy skills of the next generation.

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By embracing a rapidly changing digital world, the so-called millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines, between high- and low-brow media culture, and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies, this book blends theories of an attention economy, generational differences, communication technologies, and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging, shape-shifting portfolios, critical inquiry, and media production.

Author: Donna E. Alvermann
Format: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number of Pages: 235
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication Date: 27 May 2005

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