Design Literacies

Mary Sheridan is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Wyoming, USA. Previous publications include Girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activism in the GirlZone (2008) and Feminism and composition: A critical sourcebook. (Co-edited with Gesa Kirsch, Lance Massey, Lee Nickoson-Massey, & Faye Spencer Maor, 2003).Jennifer Rowsell is Assistant Professor of English Education in the Department of Learning and Teaching at Rutgers Graduate School of Education, USA. Previous publications include Literacy and Education:Understanding New Literacy Studies in the Classroom (co-written with Kate Pahl) and Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies (co-written with Kate Pahl), and Family Literacy Experiences.Series Editor: David BartonLiteraciesEducation/Applied Linguistics

In this fascinating book, Jennifer Rowsell and Mary P. Sheridan push the study of digital media into new territory. By focusing on the producers, whose practices are explored through illuminative case studies, we are introduced to the processes they value and the attitudes of mind they inhabit. Educators at all levels will be challenged by the underlying question of how we might be able to design literacy and learning environments based on an architecture of participation. The book provides practical and theoretical insights that will make it a key text for students and researchers in literacy and media studies.Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.Design Literacies provides stories of digital media producers that may well serve to transform the pedagogy of those of us deeply committed to work in digital media.Danielle Devoss, Michigan State University'... it is their clear vision for the educational system that makes their book so stimulating.' - Written Language & Literacy

• Foreword 1 The problem-solving logic of digital media production 2 Practices and language of design 3 “Fearless creativity”: participation structures and sponsorship in dense media networks 4 The art of spin 5 Modes spinning stories 6 Learning in today’s age of composition