ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the digital literacy practices of participants in an online community composed primarily of Korean American women. This study examined participants’ writing and how their literacy practices in this context facilitated discourses around social justice and resulted in social action. Korea American women tried to make a broad impact in the online community and beyond as change agents and represented their transnational identities across borders in doing so. Employing perspectives from the New Literacy Studies, this chapter describes how these women actively collaborated by engaging in digital literacy practices through the online community. Korean American women mobilized their digital literacy practices by social action for themselves and for their local and global communities, allowing these women who have been stereotypically perceived as silent and passive to express their voices while fostering empathy for others across borders.
