Wan Shun Eva Lam
Biographic Data
| ID | 372754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wan Shun Eva Lam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wan Shun Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Lam |
| SIGNATURE | LAM W S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6798-3852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 282 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Literacy
This section recognizes literacy as contextualized, plural, and multimodal, and foregrounds it as a socially situated and politically charged field. It interrogates how metaphors of translingual, transnational, and transcultural flow are entangled with structures and relations of power that mediate literacy across online and offline spaces, amplifying some voices while silencing others. Organized around six themes—Theoretical Perspectives, Method…
Cultivating decolonial translanguaging
The National Education Policy (NEP) in India emphasizes promoting local languages and knowledge systems in higher education. However, there is limited research on pedagogical practices that effectively support this goal. In response, this paper examines pedagogical interactions in an online writing project designed to foster decolonial translanguaging, defined as using multiple languages to represent non-dominant knowledge systems. Through qualit…
Chronotopes of Transnational Literacies
This study explores the transnational literacies that contribute to creating online social connections among migrant youth that may support their development and navigation of life across countries. We examine how social connectedness is semiotically constructed through time–space framing among two youth of Chinese descent who were participants of a larger study of the digital media practices of young people in an urban high school. We build on t…
Transnational Mexican Youth Negotiating Languages, Identities, and Cultures Online
This article presents a case study with two transnational Mexican youth that came from a larger study of the digital media practices of young people in an urban high school. Our study takes a chronotopic (Bakhtin, 1981) lens to understand the youths' accounts of their digital communication. Analysis of interviews and observations with the youth when they described their online activities show that the youth employed digital literacies to vicariou…
Multimodal Voicing and Scale-Making in a Youth-Produced Video Documentary on Immigration
This study builds on research of multimodal storytelling in educational settings by presenting a study of a youth-produced documentary on immigration. Drawing from a video documentary project in a high school class, we examine students’ representational processes of scaling in documentary storytelling, and the kinds of resources they use to construct multiple spatiotemporal contexts for understanding their experience of immigration and immigratio…
Multilingual Practices in Transnational Digital Contexts
Multiliteracies on Instant Messaging in Negotiating Local, Translocal, and Transnational Affiliations
Through an in‐depth case study of the instant messaging practices of an adolescent girl who had migrated to the United States from China, this qualitative investigation examines the development of multiliteracies in the context of transnational migration and new media of communication. Data consisted of screen recordings of the youth's digital practices, interviews, and observations. Data analyses included qualitative coding procedures and orthog…
Transnational Childhoods
Drawing upon ethnographic research in contemporary California, with case studies of migrants from Mexico, Central America, Korea, and Yemen, we analyze children's presence and participation in processes of migration and in the constitution of transnational social fields. Various facets of child-adult relations enter into children's movement across national borders, including their economic dependence and growing capacity to contribute labor; vari…
L2 Literacy and the Design of the Self
This article presents a case study that uses ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to examine how electronic textual experiences in ESL figure in the identity formation and literacy development of the learner. First, the article reviews some recent work in literacy studies, L2 learning, and computer-mediated communication to provide a conceptual basis for studying discursive practices and identity formation in L2 learning. The results of a …
Transnational Childhoods
Drawing upon ethnographic research in contemporary California, with case studies of migrants from Mexico, Central America, Korea, and Yemen, we analyze children's presence and participation in processes of migration and in the constitution of transnational social fields. Various facets of child-adult relations enter into children's movement across national borders, including their economic dependence and growing capacity to contribute labor; vari…
L2 Literacy and the Design of the Self
This article presents a case study that uses ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to examine how electronic textual experiences in ESL figure in the identity formation and literacy development of the learner. First, the article reviews some recent work in literacy studies, L2 learning, and computer-mediated communication to provide a conceptual basis for studying discursive practices and identity formation in L2 learning. The results of a …
Multiliteracies on Instant Messaging in Negotiating Local, Translocal, and Transnational Affiliations
Through an in‐depth case study of the instant messaging practices of an adolescent girl who had migrated to the United States from China, this qualitative investigation examines the development of multiliteracies in the context of transnational migration and new media of communication. Data consisted of screen recordings of the youth's digital practices, interviews, and observations. Data analyses included qualitative coding procedures and orthog…
Multilingual Practices in Transnational Digital Contexts
Transnational Mexican Youth Negotiating Languages, Identities, and Cultures Online
This article presents a case study with two transnational Mexican youth that came from a larger study of the digital media practices of young people in an urban high school. Our study takes a chronotopic (Bakhtin, 1981) lens to understand the youths' accounts of their digital communication. Analysis of interviews and observations with the youth when they described their online activities show that the youth employed digital literacies to vicariou…
L2 Literacy and the Design of the Self
This article presents a case study that uses ethnographic and discourse analytic methods to examine how electronic textual experiences in ESL figure in the identity formation and literacy development of the learner. First, the article reviews some recent work in literacy studies, L2 learning, and computer-mediated communication to provide a conceptual basis for studying discursive practices and identity formation in L2 learning. The results of a …
Transnational Childhoods
Drawing upon ethnographic research in contemporary California, with case studies of migrants from Mexico, Central America, Korea, and Yemen, we analyze children's presence and participation in processes of migration and in the constitution of transnational social fields. Various facets of child-adult relations enter into children's movement across national borders, including their economic dependence and growing capacity to contribute labor; vari…
Multiliteracies on Instant Messaging in Negotiating Local, Translocal, and Transnational Affiliations
Through an in‐depth case study of the instant messaging practices of an adolescent girl who had migrated to the United States from China, this qualitative investigation examines the development of multiliteracies in the context of transnational migration and new media of communication. Data consisted of screen recordings of the youth's digital practices, interviews, and observations. Data analyses included qualitative coding procedures and orthog…
Multilingual Practices in Transnational Digital Contexts
Multimodal Voicing and Scale-Making in a Youth-Produced Video Documentary on Immigration
This study builds on research of multimodal storytelling in educational settings by presenting a study of a youth-produced documentary on immigration. Drawing from a video documentary project in a high school class, we examine students’ representational processes of scaling in documentary storytelling, and the kinds of resources they use to construct multiple spatiotemporal contexts for understanding their experience of immigration and immigratio…
Transnational Mexican Youth Negotiating Languages, Identities, and Cultures Online
This article presents a case study with two transnational Mexican youth that came from a larger study of the digital media practices of young people in an urban high school. Our study takes a chronotopic (Bakhtin, 1981) lens to understand the youths' accounts of their digital communication. Analysis of interviews and observations with the youth when they described their online activities show that the youth employed digital literacies to vicariou…
Cultivating decolonial translanguaging
The National Education Policy (NEP) in India emphasizes promoting local languages and knowledge systems in higher education. However, there is limited research on pedagogical practices that effectively support this goal. In response, this paper examines pedagogical interactions in an online writing project designed to foster decolonial translanguaging, defined as using multiple languages to represent non-dominant knowledge systems. Through qualit…
Chronotopes of Transnational Literacies
This study explores the transnational literacies that contribute to creating online social connections among migrant youth that may support their development and navigation of life across countries. We examine how social connectedness is semiotically constructed through time–space framing among two youth of Chinese descent who were participants of a larger study of the digital media practices of young people in an urban high school. We build on t…
Literacy
This section recognizes literacy as contextualized, plural, and multimodal, and foregrounds it as a socially situated and politically charged field. It interrogates how metaphors of translingual, transnational, and transcultural flow are entangled with structures and relations of power that mediate literacy across online and offline spaces, amplifying some voices while silencing others. Organized around six themes—Theoretical Perspectives, Method…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Literacy (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (3 works)