There is No Such Thing as Copying in Cosplay”
Cosplay as a Remixed Literacy Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15015697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mona Humaid Aljanahi (0000-0001-7321-3603, corresponding author), Negmeldin Alsheikh (0000-0001-8490-6683) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 209-218 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-3004 • E-ISSN: 1936-2706 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jaal.1193 |
| OpenAlex | W3193427011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
Due to the advent of technologies and mediascapes, young adults in the Arab region are engaging in new multiliteracies and making meaning through remixing multimodal modes of representations. One such practice is cosplaying. This study explores three Arab cosplayers’ designing experiences as an embodied text. The participants’ experiences are juxtaposed against the dimensions of meaning schema. The results reveal that the participants deployed repositories of meaning making that mediated different representational, organizational, social, contextual, and transformational schemes. Furthermore, cosplaying enabled the participants to negotiate and express multiple facets of their identities while simultaneously maintaining aspects of their cultural and familial principles
Copying · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literacy · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Multimodality · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Schema (genetic algorithms · Social science · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |