Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Donna Alvermann
Acknowledgements

1. Literacy, Media, Technology, Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett and Becky Parry.

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2. The Picture Postcard at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Instagram, Snapchat or Selfies of an Earlier Age?, Julia Gillen
3. Television as a New Medium, Margaret Mackey
4. From the Wild Frontier of Davy Crockett to the Wintery Fiords of Frozen: Changes in Media Consumption, Play and Literacy from the 1950s to the 2010s, Jackie Marsh

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5. Constricting or Constructing Everyday Lives?: Literacies and Inequality, Susan Jones
6. Family Stories, Texts, and Meaning: A Study of Artifacts during a Digital Storytelling Workshop, Tisha Lewis Ellison
7. Mapping Place, Affect, and Futures in an Adolescent’s New Media Making: Schizoanalytic Cartographies, Christian Ehret

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8. ‘Finger Flowment’ and Moving Image Language: Learning Filmmaking with Tablet Devices, John Potter and Theo Bryer
9. Digital Personal Stories: Bringing Together Generations and Enriching Communities, Natalia Kucirkova

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10. Time Travels in Literacy and Pedagogy: From Script to Screen, Becky Parry, Lucy Taylor and Nadia Haerizadeh-Yazdi
11. Children’s Writing in the 21st Century: Mastery, Crafting and Control, Clare Dowdall
12. How Does Boy 17 Read a Game?, Julian McDougall

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13. Postdigital Literacies: Materiality, Mobility and the Aesthetics of Recruitment, Thomas Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne and Bjorn Nansen
14. Assembling Virtual Play in the Classroom, Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

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15. Past, Present, Future, Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant and Becky Parry

Index

Promotional Information

Explores the developments and intersections between literacy, media and technology in relation to the past, examining current definitions and classroom practices and looking towards the future.

About the Author

Becky Parry is Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. She is author of Children, Film and Literacy (Palgrave, 2013).

Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely in the field of literacy and technology and is on the editorial boards for Literacy and Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is widely published and known internationally for his work on literacy and digital technology.

Reviews

A compelling guide to how literacy, media and technology have converged. Read it to understand how communication practices have changed. Prescribe it for students to challenge their assumptions about available technologies. Recommend it to doctoral candidates to push their thinking in new directions.
*Ilana Snyder, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia*

Highlighting provocative connections between our present day literacy practices and those from the past, this engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays uncovers valuable insights about how we shape, and are shaped by, media and technology. Calling attention to troubling gaps between media research and educational practice, the volume has important implications for curriculum and pedagogy.
*Carrie James, Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA*