Critical Digital Literacies: Boundary-Crossing Practices

JuliAnna Ávila, Ph.D. (2007), UC Berkeley, is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was co-editor, with Jessica Zacher Pandya, of Critical Digital Literacies as Social Praxis: Intersections and Challenges (Peter Lang, 2012).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Glimpsing the Kaleidoscope of PraxisJuliAnna ÁvilaPART 1: Extending and Reimagining the Original Definition of Critical Digital Literacies1 Reality as GenreClaire Ahn and Ernesto Peña2 “Your Data Can Go to Anyone”: The Challenges of Developing Critical Data Literacies in ChildrenLuci Pangrazio and Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso3 Bringing Materiality into Thinking about Digital Literacy: Theories and Practices of Critical Education in a Digital AgeHolger PötzschPART 2: Critical Digital Literacies in Teacher Education4 Critical Self-Reflection and Teaching Tensions: Activating Critical Approaches to Digital Literacies Pedagogy among Preservice English TeachersAmber Jensen5 Anticipating Genders: Critical Digital Assignments as Sites of EngagementElisabeth Johnson and Elena Galdeano6 Utilizing Young Adult Literature to Develop Preservice English Teachers’ CDL-Based Pedagogical PracticesAmy Piotrowski and Amanda Miller PlaizierPART 3: CDL Activities in the Classroom7 Mobilities of Youth Print Practices in Cosmopolitan Conversation Video CompositionAnna Smith and Matthew Hall8 Assessing Critical Digital Literacies: Challenging Theory/Illustrating PracticeMary Frances Rice9 “There’s More Going On”: Critical Digital Game Literacies and the Imperative of PraxisAlexander Bacalja10 Rethinking CDL Practices in Second-Language Teacher Education: Podcasting as CDL NarrativesEdison F. Castrillón-Ángel and Raúl Alberto MoraConclusion: From Mimeographs to New Learning EcologiesAnna SmithIndex