new literacies in the blogosphere
Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear have a blog called
everyday literacies that "explores and comments on everyday practices of producing and consuming texts of whatever kind in meatspace and cyberspace."
You can download their new book A New Literacies Sampler.
Here is the table of contents:
- Sampling “the New” in New Literacies by Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel
- “You Won’t Be Needing Your Laptops Today”: Wired Bodies in the Wireless Classroom by Kevin M. Leander
- Popular Websites in Adolescents’ Out-of-School Lives: Critical Lessons on Literacy by Jennifer C. Stone
- Agency and Authority in Role-Playing “Texts” by Jessica Hammer
- Pleasure, Learning, Video Games, and Life: The Projective Stance by James Paul Gee
- Digital Design: English Language Learners and Reader Reviews in Online Fiction by Rebecca W. Black
- Blurring and Breaking through the Boundaries of Narrative, Literacy, and Identity in Adolescent Fan Fiction by Angela Thomas
- Looking from the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy by Julia Davies & Guy Merchant
- Online Memes, Affinities, and Cultural Production by Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear
- New Literacies Cynthia Lewis
The term meme (rhyming with theme) refers to a "unit of cultural information" which can propagate from one mind to another. Examples of memes: tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots, or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — acting in many ways similar to the behavior of the gene. Read more at Wikipedia.
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