Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies

Literacies of Repair
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-34857-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics

Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies questions whether the current theoretical frameworks and pedagogical practices around digital literacies are sufficient to confront the technological, social and political crises around digital media that we are experiencing today.

Drawing on extensive research in digital literacies, discourse analysis, and sociotechnical systems, Jones reimagines digital literacies not simply as skills for making meaning and navigating information but as a more holistic project of figuring out how to ‘fix’ what is ‘broken’ about the internet and our broader societies. The book focuses on seven key ‘sites of repair’—action, attention, affect, affinity, visibility, truth, and humanity— each site offering insights into how agency, emotions, relationships, knowledge, and ‘intelligence’ emerge through our entanglements with digital technologies. Digital Literacies aims to provoke debate about how we define digital literacies in an age of political polarisation and rapid technological change. It provides powerful tools for teaching, learning, and living more ethically with digital media.

With this book, Jones invites readers to see themselves not just as users of digital technology, but as fixers of broken systems—and caretakers of our increasingly fragile world. This approach provides a framework for educators, students, and researchers to collaboratively develop practical strategies to challenge the logics of technological and social systems, cultivating new literacies for an age of online misinformation, algorithmic governance, and generative AI.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Rodney H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Literacies of Repair Chapter 2: Action Chapter 3: Attention Chapter 4: Affect Chapter 5: Affinity Chapter 6: Visibility Chapter 7: Truth Chapter 8: Humanity Postscript: ‘To human is a verb’

Über Autor(innen)

Rodney H. Jones is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Digital Media in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK. He has published widely in the fields of digital literacies, health communication and language and creativity.