A Review of the “Digital Turn” in the New Literacy Studies

By K. Mills. 2010

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Digital communication has transformed literacy practices and assumed great importance in the functioning of workplace, recreational, and community contexts. This article reviews a decade of empirical work of the New Literacy Studies, identifying the shift toward research of digital literacy applications. The article engages with the central theoretical, methodological, and pragmatic challenges in the tradition of New Literacy Studies, while highlighting the distinctive trends in the digital strand. It identifies common patterns across new literacy practices through cross-comparisons of ethnographic research in digital media environments. It examines ways in which this research is taking into account power and pedagogy in normative contexts of literacy learning using the new media. Recommendations are given to strengthen the links between New Literacy Studies research and literacy curriculum, assessment, and accountability in the 21st century.

Subfields: Communication, Education, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• ‘I'm Making it Different to the Book’: Transmediation in Young Children's Multimodal and Digital Texts (2011, background): “Multimodality is defined here as the interrelationship of two or more modes (Mills, 2010c).”
• Review on teaching and learning of computational thinking through programming: What is next for K-12? (2014, background): “It develops students’ digital literacy for creating, sharing and remixing digital resources (Hague & Payton, 2011; Mills, 2010; Ng, 2012) and in the process of doing so, students are no longer passive consumers of the technology (Resnick et al.”