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"In an age of new media, with its concerns about fake news and misinformation, this fascinating book provides a clearly articulated rationale for why writing matters - now, more than ever before. It will delight and inspire undergraduates and general readers with its carefully considered and richly illustrated treatment of writing"--

Writing surrounds us, it informs us, it guides us, and it controls us. The power and complexity of this exceptional human invention is a story of change. However, in today's digital world, technology has drastically altered how and where we write, what we write about, and what writing looks like. This fascinating book presents a compelling argument for the vital importance of writing, and considers where its future may lie. Richly illustrated with examples of writing practices old and new, it explores the significant changes in writing that have occurred in our lifetime, and highlights how technology has challenged some of our most deeply held views about human communication. Through a careful examination of how writing works, it explores how it can be considered as a technology, inviting us to think again about this visual language that we so often take for granted. Writing matters - now, more than ever before.

"Undoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education. The book explores how a socio-material perspective can provide an alternative analysis of literacy in the context of digital communication. Introducing a series of conceptual tools and examples, the book examines digital communication as an emergent interweaving of social, material and semiotic resources. The perspective invites literacy research to focus more on the relations associated with the process of making meaning: the new collaborations, stories, conceptualisations, directions, and intentions that take shape in, and also help to shape the contemporary mediascape. Drawing on studies conducted in a variety of contexts, this book is key reading for all advanced students and researchers of literacy and digital media within Education, Applied Linguistics and Media/Communication Studies"--

Drawing on research exploring new media practices, this book explains and encourages classroom activity that makes purposeful and appropriate use of new media and is underpinned by a set of guiding principles for teaching literacy in contemporary times..

Literacy, media, technology / Guy Merchant, Cathy Burnett and Becky Parry -- The picture postcard at the beginning of the twentieth century : Instagram, Snapchat or selfies of an earlier age / Julia Gillen -- Television as a new medium / Margaret Mackey -- From the wild frontier of Davy Crockett to the wintery fiords of Frozen : changes in media consumption, play and literacy from the 1950s to the 2010s / Jackie Marsh -- Constricting or constructing everyday lives? : literacies and inequality / Susan Jones -- Family stories, texts, and meaning : a study Of artifacts during a digital storytelling workshop / Tisha Lewis -- Mapping place, affect, and futures in an adolescent's new media making : schizoanalytic cartographies / Christian Ehret -- "Finger flowment" and moving image language : learning filmmaking with tablet devices / John Potter and Theo Bryer -- Digital personal stories : bringing together generations and enriching communities / Natalia Kucirkova -- Time travels in literacy and pedagogy : from script to screen / Becky Parry, Lucy Taylor and Nadia Haerizadeh-Yazdi -- Children's writing in the 21st century : mastery, crafting and control / Clare Dowdall -- How does boy 17 read a game? / Julian McDougall -- Postdigital literacies : materiality, mobility and the aesthetics of recruitment / Thomas Apperley, Darshana Jayemanne and Bjorn Nansen -- Assembling virtual play in the classroom / Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant -- Past, present, future / Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant, Becky Parry

The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of accountability and assessments. As a result, teachers are caught between two competing discourses: one upholding a traditional conception of literacy re-iterated by politicians and policy-makers, and the other encouraging a more radical take on 21st century literacies driven by leading edge thinkers

This book explores the phenomenon of online social networking in the contexts of a global multicultural society caught in the turmoil of the information and communication revolution. It offers readers an up-to-date overview of the field and pushes the area into new understandings of the topic within a multidimensional space.