Young Adult Literature and the Digital World

Jennifer S. Dail, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English Education at Kennesaw State University where she works with graduate students in secondary English Education and directs the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project. Her primary focus is on digital media and technology in English language arts classrooms, and she has a deep love of young adult literature. Shelbie Witte, Ph.D., is the Chuck and Kim Watson Chair in Education and Associate Professor of Adolescent Literacy and English Education at Oklahoma State University, where she works with preservice English Language Arts teachers. She is the director of the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research and the Oklahoma State University Writing Project. Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http://www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review and a current editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature.

Foreword
Leslie Rush
Introduction: Critical Engagements with Literature: Guiding Youth as They Read, Compose, and Participate in the World
Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail
Part I: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Encounter the World
Chapter 1- Emojis, #Hashtags, and Texting, Oh My!: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom
Michelle M. Falter and Crystal L. Beach
Chapter 2- Transmedia Stories in the English Classroom
Rikki Roccanti Overstreet
Chapter 3- Remixing Reader Response with Digital, Mobile, and Multimodal Literacies
Lesley Roessing and Julie Warner
Part II: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Evaluate the World
Chapter 4- We Too are Connecticut: Digital Ubuntu with Matt de la Pena’s We Were Here
Bryan Ripley Crandall, Kate Bedard, Paula Fortuna, Kim Herzog, Shaun Mitchell, Jennifer von Wahlde, and Megan Zabilansky
Chapter 5- Becoming a Global and Digital Citizen through the Power of Young Adult Literature Kathryn Bailey
Part III: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Engage in the World
Chapter 6- Participating in Literacy and the Outside World: Consuming, Composing, and Sharing Graphic Narratives
Mike P. Cook and Brandon L. Sams
Chapter 7- Remixing Literacy for Justice and Hope
Breanne Huston
Chapter 8- #iread #iwrite #iteach: Modeling the Use of Technology, Participatory Culture, and Critical Inquiry with YA Literature in the ELA Classroom
Steffany Comfort Maher
About the Editors
About the Contributors