Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World

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Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World is written by Donna E. Alvermann and published by Peter Lang. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0820455733 (ISBN 10) and 9780820455730 (ISBN 13).

By embracing a rapidly changing digital world, the so-called millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines, between high- and low-brow media culture, and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies, this book blends theories of an attention economy, generational differences, communication technologies, and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging, shape-shifting portfolios, critical inquiry, and media production.