2nd Edition
Understanding Digital Literacies A Practical Introduction
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface to 2nd EditionChapter 1 Mediated Me
Part I Digital Tools
Chapter 2 Information Everywhere
Chapter 3 Reading and Writing in Digital Contexts
Chapter 4 Multimodality
Chapter 5 Online Language and Social Interaction
Chapter 6 Mobility and materiality
Chapter 7 Critical Digital Literacies
Part II Digital Practices
Chapter 8 Online Cultures and Intercultural Communication
Chapter 9 Games, Learning and Literacy
Chapter 10 Social (and ‘Anti-Social’) Media
Chapter 11 Collaboration and Peer Production
Chapter 12 Surveillance and privacy
Afterword
References
Index
Biography
Rodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Head of the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK.
Christoph A. Hafner is Associate Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
"Not only the best overview of the area; Understanding Digital Literacies, Second Edition is also a virtual handbook on how do good and not harm in the digital age."
James Paul Gee, Arizona State University, USA
"Thoroughly updated with newly written chapters, this new edition weaves together important and up-to-date materials highlighting the dynamism of texts and practices in mobile and social media that did not even exist when the first edition was published. A much-anticipated and timely second edition of a popular text!"
Carmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong
"I know the first edition of this book inside out. This second edition brings digital literacies bang up to date, with new discussions on topics ranging from algorithms, chatbots and fake news, to mobility, surveillance and Zoom. A comprehensive and critical guide that is both authoritative and entertaining, combining innovative theory with engaging activities and illuminating case studies."
Caroline Tagg, The Open University, UK
