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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu12124103272021-08-03T05:53:50Z Literacy, identity, and digital youth culture: Understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices Winterwood, Fawn Christine Phelps This qualitative ethnographic study examines five teenagers' historical and current digitally mediated multiliteracy practices and the performances constituting their identities within digital youth culture. The study participants interrelate with their peers to develop new meanings and changing abilities to enable them to become literate in an expanded way, as today¹s literacy practices shift from print to screen. In this digital era, students must learn to read and write within the digitally mediated multimodal environments in order to be considered literate. This study is framed by the notion of literacy, rather than a purely individualized cognitive endeavor, more one of learning as participation in a socially, culturally, and historically situated discursive construct. This theory of literacy is one which shows the social conditions necessary to navigate the social, economic, and political worlds of the 21st century. During the current shift from the modern industrial era with its print technologies to a postmodern digital era and attendant digital technologies, many theorists including New Literacy theorists have focused on literacy as a situated discursive construct, while educational institutions continue to define literacy in terms of print-related skills. The study findings indicate that throughout their lives the participants have engaged in identity performances through multimodal digitally mediated literacy practices within digital youth culture. These literacy practices have in turn worked to produce and reproduce participants' identities. The interrelation between identity cultivation and literacy practices has allowed the study participants to cultivate literacy appropriate for a postmodern digital era. 2008-09-05 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1212410327 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1212410327 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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Literacy, identity, and digital youth culture: Understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices
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Literacy, identity, and digital youth culture: Understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices
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Literacy, identity, and digital youth culture: Understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices
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literacy, identity, and digital youth culture: understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices
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2008
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