1st Edition
Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies Literacies of Repair
Chapter 1: Literacies of repair; Chapter 2: Action; Chapter 3: Attention; Chapter 4: Affect; Chapter 5: Affinity; Chapter 6: Visibility; Chapter 7: Truth; Chapter 8: Humanity; Postscript: ‘To human is a verb’
Biography
Rodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Digital Media in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK. He has published widely in the fields of digital literacies, health communication, and language and creativity.
"Rodney Jones has written the book our moment needs. Literacies of Repair refuses the easy story that ‘the internet broke us’ and instead offers a humane, systemic way to mend—beginning with how people actually live, feel, learn, and act together. Jones moves beyond checklist ‘digital skills’ to show how action, attention, affect, affinity, visibility, truth, and humanity intertwine in real practices. This is not a cynical autopsy of platforms; it’s a design manual for communities who want to reclaim agency—what he calls agencing—and cultivate cultures of care."
James Paul Gee, Regents’ Professor, Emeritus, Arizona State University
"Rodney Jones offers a bold, pathbreaking vision of digital literacies as practices not just of critique but of repair. Urging us to confront the brokenness of the internet, and reorienting literacy towards care, agency, and collective action, this book is a powerful call to rediscover what truly matters in a digitally mediated, fractured world."
Ron Darvin Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia
