Community-Based Multiliteracies and Digital Media Projects

Questioning Assumptions and Exploring Realities

Heather M. Pleasants, Dana E. Salter, Heather M. Pleasants, Dana E. Salter

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781453912782
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

Within community-based digital literacies work, a fundamental question remains unanswered: Where are the stories and reflections of the researchers, scholars, and community workers themselves? We have learned much about contexts, discourses, and the multimodal nature of meaning making in literacy and digital media experiences. However, we have learned very little about those who initiate, facilitate, and direct these community-based multiliteracies and digital media projects. In Community-Based Multiliteracies & Digital Media Projects: Questioning Assumptions and Exploring Realities, contributors discuss exemplary work in the field of community-based digital literacies, while providing an insightful and critical perspective on how we begin to write ourselves into the stories of our work. In doing so, the book makes a powerful contribution to digital literacies praxis and pedagogy – within and outside of community-based contexts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: The Complicated Work of “Making the Familiar Strange” in Community-Based Literacies Research and Practice (Lalitha Vasudevan)
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Writing Oneself into the Story (Heather M. Pleasants and Dana E. Salter)
• Part 1: Ethics and Politics of Representation and “Doing Good”
• Part 2: Identities and Relationships
• Part 3: Methodologies
• Part 4: Pedagogies and Knowledge Construction
• Part 5: After the Project