Mapping Recreational Literacies: Contemporary Adults at Play

by Margaret Mackey

Being a fully literate adult means something different today than it did fifty years ago. Adults aged 18-34, having grown up with the technological innovations that have revolutionized the way we live and read - the Walkman, the video cassette recorder, the affordable domestic computer, the game console, the DVD, the Internet, and a variety of mobile and portable communications equipment - are the first generation to take the new world of literacy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820497061
• ISBN13: 9780820497068
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 255 Pages