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A New Communication Order: Researching Literacy Practices in the Network Society |
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Ilana Snyder |
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ART; REF [Journal article; Lit. review] |
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Language and Education Vol 15 No. 2-3 (2001) pp. 117–131 To purchase full text: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g907966239
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2001 |
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Teachers, teacher-educators, researchers, administrators |
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Integral to the New Literacy Studies (NLS) is the acknowledged need to expand narrow explanations of literacy so as to capture the complexity of real literacy practices in contemporary society--a "new communicative order." Significantly, this new order takes account of the literacy practices associated with screen-based technologies, recognizing that "being literate" requires learning more than merely print-based reading and writing. The first section discusses some important characteristics of the new communication order, providing a context for an overview of research in the field of literacy and technology studies consistent with the NLS view of literacy. Theoretical and empirical aspects of the Australian Digital Rhetorics study (which investigated the interface between literacy, technology and student learning) receive particular attention. Discussion of possibilities for further research tackles the challenge to devise research initiatives that will inform effective practice, mediated by new information and communication technologies, at all levels of education |
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