1st Edition

Literacies in the Platform Society Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Edited By T. Philip Nichols, Antero Garcia Copyright 2026
314 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As digital platforms become increasingly common and even the norm for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate neatly to these new contexts. This edited volume explores the complex relationship between digital platforms and literacies, understanding that they have become an unavoidable part of the literacy and education ecosystem. The... Read more

Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society  Part I: Histories  1. New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs  2. Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions  3. Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and from Manuscript Central  4. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube  5. Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era  Part II: Pedagogies  6. Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy, and Unexpected Labor  7. Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice  8. Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance  9. Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software  10. Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers  Part III: Possibilities  11. As We May Mark  12. Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach  13. Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation  14. Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism  Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies

Biography

T. Philip Nichols is Associate Professor of English Education at Baylor University.

Antero Garcia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.