Tuesday, July 15, 2008
"Digital Literacies" is out
Our new edited collection, Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices, has just been published by Peter Lang. The book presents a rich range of perspectives on digital literacies and we are thrilled to have had the opportunity to present work by so many leading researchers and writers on the topic of digital literacy in the one place. As always, we are deeply appreciative of the generous efforts of our contributors and commend their work to you.
The book's contents are as follows:
- Introduction: Digital Literacies -- Concepts, Policies and Practices (Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel)
- Origins and concepts of digital literacy (David Bawdin)
- Functional internet literacy: Required cognntive skills with implications for instruction. (Genevieie Johnson)
- Digital literacy as information savvy (Maggie Fieldhouse & David Nicholas)
- Definin digital literacy: What do young people need to know about digital media? (David Buckingham)
- Digital literacy policies in the EU -- Inclusive partnership as the final stage of governmentality? (Leena Rantala & Juha Suoranta
- Digital Competence -- From educational policy to pedagogy: The Norwegian Context (Morten Soby)
- Digital literacy and the "digital society" (Allan Martin)
- Trajectories of remixing: Digital literacies, media production and schooling (Ola Erstad)
- Digital literacies at work -- Employees' blogging (Lilia Efimova & Jonathan Grudin)
- Pay and display: The digital literacies of online shoppers (Julia Davies)
- Digital literacy and participation in online social networking spaces (Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear)
- Digital literacy and the law: Remixing elements of Lawrence Lessig's ideal of "Free Culture" (assembled and remixed by Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel)
