Full Description
Understanding Digital Literacies Second Edition provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. This book equips students with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic dimensions and social impact of a range of digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems, and debates surrounding it, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices.
Features of the second edition include:
• expanded coverage of a diverse range of digital media practices that now includes Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tinder, and WhatsApp;
• two entirely new chapters on mobility and materiality, and surveillance and privacy;
• updated activities in each chapter which engage students in reflecting on and analysing their own media use;
• e-resources featuring a glossary of key terms and supplementary material for each chapter, including additional activities and links to useful websites, articles, and videos.
This book is an essential textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in new media and digital literacies.
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface to 2nd EditionChapter 1 Mediated Me
Part I Digital Tools
Chapter 2 Information Everywhere
Chapter 3 Reading and Writing in Digital Contexts
Chapter 4 Multimodality
Chapter 5 Online Language and Social Interaction
Chapter 6 Mobility and materiality
Chapter 7 Critical Digital Literacies
Part II Digital Practices
Chapter 8 Online Cultures and Intercultural Communication
Chapter 9 Games, Learning and Literacy
Chapter 10 Social (and 'Anti-Social') Media
Chapter 11 Collaboration and Peer Production
Chapter 12 Surveillance and privacy
Afterword
References
Index
