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oapen-20.500.12657-527492022-04-23T09:05:46Z Digital Literacies Gillen, Julia Digital Literacies digital language digital learning Julia Gillen multiliteracies online communities technology enhanced learning virtual literacy ethnography web 2.0 literacies bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CB Language: reference & general bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning. In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a substantial extent Linguistics has failed to rise to the opportunities presented by studying language in digital contexts. Assuming no existing knowledge, and drawing from a wide range of research projects, she presents a range of approaches to the study of writing and reading language online. Challenging some of the existing concepts, Digital Literacies traces key ideas through both the history of literacy studies and contemporary approaches to language online, including linguistic ethnography and corpus linguistics. Examples, taken from real life studies, include the use of digital technologies in everyday life, online teenage communities and professional use of Twitter in journalism. Within each chapter, the relevant research methods used are explored and then tied to the theory underpinning them. This book is an innovative and essential read for all those studying and researching applied linguistics, particularly in the areas of literacy and multimodality, at an upper undergraduate and postgraduate level. The title will also be of interest to those working with new media in the fields of Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Psychology, and Education. 2022-02-10T12:47:43Z 2022-02-10T12:47:43Z 2014 book ONIX_20220210_9781317801832_4 9781317801832 9781315813530 9780415660938 9780415660891 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52749 eng Literacies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781317801832.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315813530 10.4324/9781315813530 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Knowledge Unlatched 9781317801832 9781315813530 9780415660938 9780415660891 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 204 open access
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With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning. In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a substantial extent Linguistics has failed to rise to the opportunities presented by studying language in digital contexts. Assuming no existing knowledge, and drawing from a wide range of research projects, she presents a range of approaches to the study of writing and reading language online. Challenging some of the existing concepts, Digital Literacies traces key ideas through both the history of literacy studies and contemporary approaches to language online, including linguistic ethnography and corpus linguistics. Examples, taken from real life studies, include the use of digital technologies in everyday life, online teenage communities and professional use of Twitter in journalism. Within each chapter, the relevant research methods used are explored and then tied to the theory underpinning them. This book is an innovative and essential read for all those studying and researching applied linguistics, particularly in the areas of literacy and multimodality, at an upper undergraduate and postgraduate level. The title will also be of interest to those working with new media in the fields of Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Psychology, and Education.
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