Digital Literacies

The Editors: Colin Lankshear received his Ph.D. in philosophy of education at Canterbury University in New Zealand. He is currently a research leadership Professor of Literacy and New Technologies at James Cook University in Australia. Michele Knobel completed her Ph.D. in language and literacy education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is currently Professor of Education at Montclair State University, where she coordinates the graduate and undergraduate literacy programs. Lankshear and Knobel’s recent publications include A Handbook for Teacher Research (2004), New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Knowledge (2006), and A New Literacies Sampler (Peter Lang, 2007). They also edited (with Julie Coiro and Donald Leu) The Handbook of Research on New Literacies (2008).

«With their fingers on the pulse of digital literacies research, Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel have again pulled together a volume as far-reaching in its consequence as it is rich in theory and analysis. Edited and synthesized for academic and lay audiences alike, this volume will prove a lasting contribution to the contemporary conversation among literacy scholars, technology and media researchers, pop culture theorists and those with interests in contemporary education, theory and practice, and literacy and learning in the twenty-first century. Highly recommended.» (Constance Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin-Madison)«This impressive volume consolidates cutting-edge work across several disciplines to outline a field of digital media and new literacies. Crisply edited to be readable yet exhaustively researched enough to serve as an authoritative resource, this book has created a backbone [for] the field and is sure to earn a place on almost any literacy, technology or media studies scholar’s bookshelf.» (Kurt Squire, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Contents: Colin Lankshear/Michele Knobel: Introduction: Digital Literacies - Concepts, Policies and Practices – David Bawden: Origins and Concepts of Digital Literacy – Genevieve Marie Johnson: Functional Internet Literacy: Required Cognitive Skills with Implications for Instruction – Maggie Fieldhouse/David Nicholas: Digital Literacy as Information Savvy: The Road to Information Literacy – David Buckingham: Defining Digital Literacy - What Do Young People Need to Know About Digital Media? – Leena Rantala/Juha Suoranta: Digital Literacy Policies in the EU – Inclusive Partnership as the Final Stage of Governmentality? – Morten Søby: Digital Competence - From Education Policy to Pedagogy: The Norwegian Context – Allan Martin: Digital Literacy and the «Digital Society» – Ola Erstad: Trajectories of Remixing: Digital Literacies, Media Production, and Schooling – Lilia Efimova/Jonathan Grudin: Crossing Boundaries: Digital Literacy in Enterprises – Julia Davies: Pay and Display: The Digital Literacies of Online Shoppers – Michele Knobel/Colin Lankshear: Digital Literacy and Participation in Online Social Networking Spaces – Colin Lankshear/Michele Knobel: Digital Literacy and the Law: Remixing Elements of Lawrence Lessig’s Ideal of «Free Culture».