Literacy for Digital Futures: Mind, Body, Text

Literacy for Digital Futures: Mind, Body, Text

bodies; communication; digital literacy; education; embodied cognition; knowledge; literacy practices; mind; multiliteracies; multimodality; social semiotics; textual design; ways of knowing

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today’s world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes – Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics – to shape readers’ understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice.

Mills, Kathy A.;
Unsworth, Len;
Scholes, Laura

https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75928

Taylor & Francis

2023

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Pdf

English

Textbooks

10.4324/9781003137368