Everyday Literacies

New Book in our series out! Digital Content Creation: Perception, Practices and Perspectives

Congratulations to Kristen Drotner and Kim Christian Schrøder for their edited collection, Digital Content Creation: Perception, Practices and Perspectives! From the back cover:

The formative role played by digital communication in knowledge-based societies is widely acknowledged. Not least, young peoples rapid adoption of a variety of social software applications serves to challenge existing forms of communication for learning, since these innovations allow and assume users own creation, sharing, and editing of content. This volume presents advanced research on digital content creation, its socio-cultural contexts, and educational consequences. In the midst of ubiquitous commercial hype about digital innovation, as well as policy concerns, the volume offers the sobering perspectives of theory-driven empirical research, in order to examine the complexities, highlight the nuances, and illuminate the pedagogical affordances of creative digital contents. This book brings together the work of an international group of scholars from a range of disciplines including media and ICT studies, education, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

Contents inlcude:

• Kirsten Drotner/Kim Christian Schrøder: Introduction: Digital Content Creation: Perceptions, Practices, and Perspectives
• Jonas Löwgren: Designing for Collaborative Crossmedia Creation
• Wilma Clark: Wiki as Semiospheric Text: Students' Meaning-Making Practices as Authors and Consumers of Digital Texts
• Ola Erstad: Content in Motion: Remixing and Learning with Digital Media
• Simon Staffans and Annika Wiklund-Engblom: Developing Crossmedia and Interactivity for Edutainment: Conclusions Drawn from «The Space Trainees» Project
• John Hartley: Where Money and Meanings Meet: Theorizing the Emergence of New Values in Media and Education
• Becky Herr-Stephenson: Media Production and the Problem of Consumption
• Nina Haferkamp and Nicole C. Krämer: Creating a Digital Self: Impression Management and Impression Formation on Social Network Sites
• Angela McFarlane: Digital Creativity: Editing versus Cheating and How You Learn the
  Difference
• Anette Grønning: Chat Interaction in Public and Commercial Domains
• Jenny Weight: Learning Space(s)
• Ralph Barthel, Shaaron Ainsworth and Mike Sharples: Negotiating Perspective in Social Video Environments
• Daniel Spikol: Design Strategies for Developing Mobile Collaborative Learning Platforms
• Mikael Kivelä and Jarkko Mylläri: Digitally Mapping a Rhizome: Making Sense of Digital Content Creation Processes
• Norbert Wildermuth: Empowerment: The Real Challenge of Digital Inclusion
• David Buckingham: Do We Really Need Media Education 2.0? Teaching in the Age of Participatory Media.

The authors describe an engaging and idea-generating array of institutional and community media production project. The book as a whole offers important insights into what's happening in a range of countries, with a particular focus on Scandanavian countries, England and Australia.