1st Edition

New Methods of Literacy Research

Edited By Peggy Albers, Teri Holbrook, Amy Flint Copyright 2014
283 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Literacy researchers at all stages of their careers are designing and developing innovative new methods for analyzing data in a range of spaces in and out of school. Directly connected with evolving themes in literacy research, theory, instruction, and practices—especially in the areas of digital technologies, gaming, and web-based research; discourse analysis; and arts-based research—this... Read more

Preface: Shifting Times in Literacy Education: Teri Holbrook, Peggy Albers, and Amy Seely Flint

Acknowledgements

Part I: Methods in Discourse Analysis
1. Microethnographic Discourse Analysis: David Bloome and Stephanie Carter
2. Critical Discourse Analysis in Literacy Research: Rebecca Rogers
3. Temporal Discourse Analysis: Catherine Compton-Lilly
4. Mediated Discourse Analysis: Tracking Discourse in Action: Karen Wohlwend
5. Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis: Sigrid Norris
6. Visual Discourse Analysis: Peggy Albers

Part II: Methods in Arts-based and Autoethnographic Research
7. Autoethnography: PS I Love You: Jodi Kaufmann
8. Texts, Affects, and Relations in Cultural Performance: An Embodied Analysis of Dramatic Inquiry: Carmen Medina and Mia Perry
9. Poetic Inquiry:  Lorri Neilsen-Glenn
10. A/r/tography: Always in Process: Carl Leggo and Rita L. Irwin
11. Artifactual Literacies: Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell
12. Geosemiotics: Sue Nichols

Part III: Methods of Analysis in Digital Technologies, Gaming, and Web-based Research
13. Researching Young Children's Literacy Practices in Online Virtual Worlds: Cyber-ethnography and Multi-method Approaches: Jackie Marsh
14. Video Games and Electronic Media: Catherine Beavis
15. Social Media as Authorship: Methods for Studying Literacies and Communities Online: Glynda Hull, Amy Stornaiuolo, and Jennifer Higgs
16. Analyzing Digital Texts as Literacy Artifacts: Vivian M. Vasquez

List of Contributors

Index

Biography

Peggy Albers is Professor of Language Education at Georgia State University, USA.

Teri Holbrook is Assistant Professor of Literacy and Language Arts at Georgia State University, USA.

Amy Seely Flint is Associate Professor of Language Education at Georgia State University, USA.