ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the discourses and practices associated with curation in the multiple spaces of the internet. To conclude, the chapter considers the implications of new ways of thinking about curation in digital times for critical literacy education. Intrinsic to this analytic work is consideration of the discourses and practices associated with curation. In education online, discussions have turned to ‘curated learning’. In digital literacy studies, researchers are exploring the notion of curation in relation to identity and multimodality. To conclude, the chapter considers the implications of new ways of thinking about curation in digital times for critical literacy education. The analysis is also informed by the broad understanding of ‘practices’ integral to the field of literacy studies: ‘regular and sustained socio-cultural activities, involving elements of knowledge, identity and being, that vary across social settings, resulting in different kinds of engagements with writing and artefacts of literacy’.
