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Textual practices in the new media digital landscape: messing with digital literacies

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dc.creator Lesley Gourlay
dc.creator Mary Hamilton
dc.creator Mary Rosalind Lea
dc.date 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:16:18Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:16:18Z
dc.identifier 2156-7069
dc.identifier 2156-7077
dc.identifier 10.3402/rlt.v21.21438
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/c71256167d664533b51b6721132a3092
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18373
dc.description This paper offers a working conversation between the authors about the uneasy relationship between literacy studies and learning technologies. We come from the field of literacy studies but from contrasting perspectives: from academic literacies and work on literacies and technologies in higher education; from an interest in media theory and the implications of digital mediation for the contemporary university; from everyday literacies in informal settings and a concern for the gaps between policy and practice. We illustrate our perspectives through reference to post-compulsory education, especially higher education, but intend our arguments to be of broader value to all sectors of education and learning. We argue that it is probably inevitable that terms such as literacy/digital/network will be taken up by different arenas of scholarship and practice to mean different things, but what is important is finding spaces to make visible the embedded and implicit understandings, assumptions and ideological positions that are carried by these terms. In the paper, we attempt to lay bare some of the tendencies in the different approaches and argue the case for building on these differences in our work rather than seeing them as paradigm contests. We suggest that it would be more generative to the field to acknowledge the richness and diversity of these different traditions, rather than attempting the impossible task of forcing them into a superficial reconciliation.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Co-Action Publishing
dc.relation http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/download/21438/pdf_1
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2156-7069
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2156-7077
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Research in Learning Technology, Vol 21, Iss 0, Pp 1-13 (2014)
dc.subject literacies
dc.subject digital
dc.subject textual practices
dc.subject learning landscapes
dc.subject ethnographic
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Textual practices in the new media digital landscape: messing with digital literacies
dc.type article


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