ABSTRACT

Undoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative analysis of literacy in the context of digital communication. 

Introducing a series of conceptual tools and examples, the book examines digital communication as an emergent interweaving of social, material and semiotic resources. The perspective invites literacy research to focus more on the relations associated with the process of making meaning: the new collaborations, stories, conceptualisations, directions, and intentions that take shape in, and also help to shape, the contemporary mediascape. 

Drawing on studies conducted in a variety of contexts, this book is key reading for all advanced students and researchers of literacy and digital media within Education, Applied Linguistics and Media/Communication Studies.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|13 pages

Undoing the digital

chapter 2|16 pages

The instability of things

chapter 3|17 pages

Making new sense of literacy

chapter 4|17 pages

In the event

chapter 6|16 pages

An ethic of caring

chapter 7|13 pages

Enchantment

chapter 8|11 pages

Rethinking literacy and education