Understanding digital literacies : a practical introduction / Rodney H. Jones and Christoph A. Hafner.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Jones, Rodney H., author.
• Hafner, Christoph A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Media literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"Understanding Digital Literacies 2nd Edition provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. This book equips students with the theoretical and analytical tools with which to explore the linguistic dimensions and social impact of a range of digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems and debates surrounding the subject, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices. Features of the 2nd edition include: expanded coverage of a diverse range of digital media practices that now includes Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tinder, and WhatsApp; two entirely new chapters on Mobility and Materiality and Surveillance and Privacy; updated activities in each chapter which engage students in reflecting on and analysing their own media use; e-resources featuring a glossary of key terms and supplementary material for each chapter, including additional activities and links to useful websites, articles, and videos. This book is an essential textbook for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying courses in new media and digital literacies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Preface to the second edition
• Chapter 1 Mediated me
• Mediation
• Affordances and constraints
• Creativity
• Media utopias and dystopias
• What are 'digital literacies'?
• How this book is organized
• Part I Digital tools
• Chapter 2 Information everywhere
• Information and relationships
• Ontologies: Organizing the world
• Filtering
• The attention economy
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Reading and writing in digital contexts
• Hypertext and linking
• Dynamic hypertext
• Clickbait or 'You won't believe what you're about to read!!'
• Is hypertext making you stupid?
• Interactivity
• Automatic writing
• Mashups and remixing
• Chapter 4 Multimodality
• From page to screen
• Interfaces
• Visual design in multimodal texts
• Combining modes
• Designing video
• Chapter 5 Online language and social interaction
• Media effects
• User effects
• What are we doing when we interact online?
• 'Phatic' communication
• The richness of lean media: Mode-mixing and mode-switching
• Chapter 6 Mobility and materiality
• Mobility and hybrid spaces
• Locative media
• Placemaking with digital images
• Embodiment
• Materiality and the 'Internet of Things'
• Chapter 7 Critical digital literacies
• Ideologies and imaginaries
• Are technologies ideological?
• Mediation redux
• Interfaces and dark patterns
• Fake news
• Who owns the internet?
• Conclusion: 'Hacking' digital media
• Part II Digital practices
• Chapter 8 Online cultures and intercultural communication
• Online cultures as discourse systems
• Light communities and ambient affiliation
• Cultures-of-use and media ideologies
• Intercultural communication online
• Tribalism and polarization.
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9 Games, learning, and literacy
• Games and literacy
• Reading and writing in games
• Games and our material and social worlds
• Games and identity
• Games and learning
• Chapter 10 Social (and 'anti-social') media
• We are not files
• Social networks and social ties
• The presentation of self on social networking platforms
• 'Anti-social media'
• Chapter 11 Collaboration and peer production
• Collaboration in writing
• Wikinomics and peer production
• The wisdom of crowds
• Memes and virality
• Note
• Chapter 12 Surveillance and privacy
• What is privacy?
• Responses to privacy challenges
• Lateral surveillance
• Pretexts
• Entextualization
• Notes
• Afterword: Mediated Us
• References
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 1-00-317764-6
• 1-000-39401-8
• 1-003-17764-6
• 1-000-39403-4

OCLC:

1251445355