From Digital Consumption to Digital Invention

Toward a New Critical Theory and Practice of Multiliteracies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4880415
AutoresNicole Mirra (0000-0003-4225-2209, Nicole Mirra is at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, autor correspondente), Ernest Morrell (Department of Learning and Teaching, New Brunswick, New Jersey., Ernest Morrell is now at the University of Notre Dame, Department of English, Notre Dame, Indiana. Danielle Filipiak is at the Teachers College, Columbia University, Department of Arts and Humanities, New York, New York), Danielle Filipiak (0000-0002-4231-5137, Nicole Mirra is at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
Ano2018
Volume57
Fascículo1
Páginas12-19
Data de publicação2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405841.2017.1390336
OpenAlexW2774512734
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas40
Referências citadas9

The teaching of media and digital literacies has gained increased attention in the 20 years following the New London Group's landmark publication. From approaches urging the study of popular culture to calls for youth led social media revolution, there is no shortage of approaches. Yet scant attention is offered toward articulating a new and comprehensive theory of pedagogy and production that acknowledges the changing tools and technologies at young people's disposal, conceptualizes young people as media producers, and applies these developments to today's complex classroom context. We aim to articulate a new critical theory of multiliteracies that encompasses 4 types of digital engagement: (a) critical digital consumption, (b) critical digital production, (c) critical distribution, and (d) critical digital invention. We make the argument that a new critical theory of multiliteracies needs to account for each of these types of digital engagement but that, ultimately, we must move beyond theorizing our youth as passive consumers or even critical users of digital technologies toward the project of facilitating youth communities of digital innovation

Consumption (sociology · Critical race theory · Critical theory · Epistemology · Mathematics education · Multimedia · Pedagogy · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Storytelling and Education · Gender Studies · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology