June M-arketplace Feature
New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Cuture Across Borders (edited by Bronwyn Williams and Amy A. Zenger). ($38.66 plus free shipping).
How do students’ online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influenced by popular culture create both opportunities and tensions for secondary and university students. The authors examine issues of theory, identity, and pedagogy as they address participatory popular culture sites such as fan forums, video, blogs, social networking sites, anime, memes, and comics and graphic novels. The volume uniquely brings together scholarship about online literacy practices and the growing body of work on participatory popular culture [learn more]
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