Literacies Across Media: Playing the Text

by Margaret Mackey

The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. Literacies Across Media explores how a group of boys and girls, aged from ten to fourteen, make sense of narratives in a variety of formats, including print, electronic book, video, DVD, computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these young people over a period of eighteen months as they read, view and play different texts, demonstrating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041540746X
• ISBN13: 9780415407465
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"