"The Trashmaster": Literacy and New Media

Autor/in	Merchant, Guy
Titel	"The Trashmaster": Literacy and New Media
Quelle	In: Language and Education, 27 (2013) 2, S.144-160 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0782
DOI	10.1080/09500782.2012.760586
Schlagwörter	Literacy; Information Technology; Films; Video Games; Video Technology; Computer Mediated Communication; Communication (Thought Transfer); Educational Practices; Educational Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Informationstechnologie; Film; Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Computerkonferenz; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Bildungspraxis; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	In large parts of the developed world, increased connectivity has led to changes in the communicational landscape. Meaning-making associated with new media disturbs established ways of describing and defining literacy, leading some academics and educators to identify "new literacies" as a distinct break from traditional and predominantly print-based practices. At the same time, neo-liberal education policy is contributing to a narrowing of schooled literacy, focusing on what is easy to assess and measure. This paper looks at key themes in new media discourse and, using the idea of a "constellation of literacy practices", examines the meaning-making practices that surround the popular machinima movie "The Trashmaster" as a way of testing assumptions about the changing landscape of communication. It concludes by showing how these practices are at odds with current schooled literacy practices and suggests that this leads to inconsistencies in the ways in which we conceive of success and failure in literacy. (Contains 1 table and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10