Researching New Literacies: Design, Theory, and Data in Sociocultural Investigation (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies)

266 Pages·2017·10.036 MB·English

by  Michele Knobel (editor), Colin Lankshear (editor)

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This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualita-
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literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways
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MICHELE KNOBEL holds a Ph.D. from Queensland University of Technology (Austra-

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Researching New Literacies
Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel
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Vol. 76

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Researching New Literacies

Design, Theory, and Data
in Sociocultural Investigation

Edited by Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Knobel, Michele, editor. | Lankshear, Colin, editor.
Title: Researching new literacies: design, theory, and data in sociocultural investigation /
edited by Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2017.
Series: New literacies and digital epistemologies; vol. 76 | ISSN 1523-9543
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016032921 | ISBN 978-1-4331-3146-2 (hardcover: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-3145-5 (paperback: alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4539-1649-0 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-3833-1 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-3832-4 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Internet literacy. | Media literacy. | Computer literacy.
Technological literacy. | Digital media—Research. | Qualitative research—Methodology.
Classification: LCC TK5105.875.I57 R419 2016 | DDC 025.042072—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016032921
DOI 10.3726/978-1-4539-1649-0

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Table Contents
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Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter One: Researching new literacies: Addressing the challenges
of initial research training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel
Chapter Two: Critical junctures in the design and conduct of
affinity space research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Jayne C . Lammers
Chapter Three: Conversation analysis, transcription, and local
productions of order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Aaron Chia Yuan Hung
Chapter Four: Theorizing context: A design-based analysis of an
online affinity space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Alecia Marie Magnifico
Chapter Five: Understanding Twitter as a networked field site:
Implications for research on teacher professional learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Jen Scott Curwood and Carly Biddolph
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Chapter Six: The messiness of actor-network theory in an online
gaming ethnography: The inside story of Leet Noobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Mark Chen
Chapter Seven: Classroom digital literacies as interactional
accomplishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Ibrar Bhatt
Chapter Eight: Discourse analytic approaches to understanding
new literacies in online fan fiction writing communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Rebecca W . Black
Chapter Nine: Games, films, and media literacy: Frameworks for
multimodal analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Andrew Burn
Chapter Ten: Connecting content coding and Discourse analysis
to investigate online affinity spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
Sean C . Duncan
Chapter Eleven: “There’s a relationship”: Negotiating cell phone
use in the high school classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215
Anita S . Charles
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Names Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247