Literacies in the Platform Society

As digital platforms become more common for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate to these contexts. This volume explores the relationship between digital platforms and literacies, understanding they have become an unavoidable part of the literacy and education ecosystem.

As digital platforms become increasingly common and even the norm for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate neatly to these new contexts. This edited volume explores the complex relationship between digital platforms and literacies, understanding that they have become an unavoidable part of the literacy and education ecosystem. The chapters address a range of contexts and considerations around the social, technical, and economic complexities of platform technologies and how they have remade literacy teaching and learning. Insightful and innovative, this is key reading for literacy scholars, researchers, and graduate students.

Autorentext

T. Philip Nichols is an Associate Professor of English Education at Baylor University.

Antero Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.

Inhalt

Part 1: Histories 1. New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs 2. Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions 3. Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and from Manuscript Central 4. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube 5. Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era Part 2: Pedagogies 6. Teachers' Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy, and Unexpected Labor 7. Human and Non-Human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice 8. Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance 9. Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software 10. Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers Part 3: Possibilities 11. As We May Mark 12. Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach 13. Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation 14. Towards a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to "Talk Back" to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism