Adolescents’ Online Literacies

The Editor: Donna E. Alvermann is the University of Georgia Appointed Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education. Formerly a classroom teacher in Texas and New York, her research focuses on young people’s media literacies and popular culture in both classroom and digital environments. Her books include Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World and Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives (2nd ed.). She was elected to the Reading Hall of Fame in 1999.

Contents: Donna E. Alvermann: Introduction – Lalitha Vasudevan/Tiffany DeJaynes/Stephanie Schmier: Multimodal Pedagogies: Playing, Teaching and Learning with Adolescents’ Digital Literacies – Janie Cowan: Webkinz, Blogs, and Avatars: Lessons Learned from Young Adolescents – Guy Merchant: View My Profile(s) – David E. Kirkland: 4 Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide/When Social Networking Was Enuf: A Black Feminist Perspective on Literacy Online – Theresa Rogers/Kari-Lynn Winters: Textual Play, Satire, and Counter Discourses of Street Youth Zining Practices – Jairus Joaquin: Digital Literacies and Hip Hop Texts: The Potential for Pedagogy – Michael Dezuanni: Digital Media Literacy: Connecting Young People’s Identities, Creative Production and Learning about Video Games – Amanda Gutierrez/Catherine Beavis: ‘Experts on the Field’: Redefining Literacy Boundaries – Kelly Chandler-Olcott/Elizabeth Lewis: «I Think They’re Being Wired Differently»: Secondary Teachers’ Cultural Models of Adolescents and Their Online Literacies – Andrew Burn/David Buckingham/Becky Parry/Mandy Powell: Minding the Gaps: Teachers’ Cultures, Students’ Cultures – Kevin M. Leander: Afterword.