Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture & Reading & Writing Online

by Bronwyn T. Williams

This book examines the powerful role of popular culture in the daily online literacy practices of young people. Whether as subject matter, discourse, or through rhetorical patterns, popular culture dominates both the form and the content of online reading and writing. In order to understand not only how but why online technologies have changed literacy and popular culture practices, this book looks at online participatory popular culture from MySpace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433103346
• ISBN13: 9781433103346
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.