ABSTRACT
This chapter makes two broad movements. First, it synthesizes the burgeoning literature that draws on theories of cosmopolitanism, arguing that this literature offers a field-wide emerging theory about how to cultivate ethical ways of communicating and relating across differences in a globalizing world. Cosmopolitan theory is then distilled into three broad practices for literacy: unsettling encounters, critical reflections, and hospitable dialogues. The second movement takes these cosmopolitan(izing) practices as a framework for changing digital literacies, suggesting ways that research and education communities might refocus their attention to more fully understand the worlds of digital literacies, and contribute to the development of ethical relations within and across these worlds. In particular, the chapter suggests shifting focus from the page to the network, from the (human) individual to the (human and non-human) assemblage, and from close(d) reading to open listening.
