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Theorizing Media Productions as Complex Literacy Performances Among Youth In and Out of Schools

Theorizing Media Productions as Complex Literacy Performances Among Youth In and Out of Schools
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Author(s): Theresa Rogers (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 14
Source title: Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Darren Lee Pullen (University of Tasmania, Australia)and David R. Cole (University of Technology - Sydney, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-673-0.ch009

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Abstract

In this chapter the author explores the ways media production represents sophisticated identity and cultural work, and therefore complex literacy performances, among youth as they engage in a play of genres and subject positioning in particular social (educational and community) spaces. Two major research projects in which youth participated in media production form the basis for theorizing in this chapter. Four cases illustrate the ways particular youth design new, hybrid multimodal genres, and how they engage in new models of authorship and cultural critique in this process. Although “youth culture” is often referred to as an undifferentiated phenomenon, this work is highly context-specific, revealing multiple and diverse sub-communities in which specific kinds of cultural and critical work are being undertaken. The author concludes with a challenge to transform schools and classrooms to reflect the increasingly multimodal landscapes in which youth reside.

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