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Critical Media Literacy: Research, Theory, and Practice in “New Times”
- Year
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Abstract
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L Elkins (1998), recently appointed editors of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, noted in their first
issue of the journal that the potential for such reinvention is
reflected in the way “texts and literate practices of everyday
life are changing at an unprecedented and disorienting
pace” (p. 4). Attributing the changes largely to new information technologies arid to the complex multiliteracies that
these technologies entail (New London Group, 1997), Luke
and Elkins characterizled the era in which we are living as
New Times. It is a time of major shifts in cultural practices,
economic systems, and social institutions on a global scale;
a time when literacy educators from around the world are
speculating about the ways in which new technologies will
alter conceptions of reading and writing. - Keywords
- Donna E. Alvermann, Margaret C. Hagood