Literacies Across Media: Playing the Text by Margaret Mackey (English) Paperback

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This thought-provoking, fascinating and highly informative text offers both a vivid account of a group of young readers coming to terms with texts and a radical perspective on the growth of a generation of young readers.

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The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. Literacies Across Media explores how a group of boys and girls, aged from ten to fourteen, make sense of narratives in a variety of formats, including print, electronic book, video, DVD, computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these young people over a period of eighteen months as they read, view and play different texts, demonstrating variations and consistencies of interpretative behaviour across different media.Margaret Mackey analyses how the activities of reading, viewing and playing intertwine and affect each other's development. Her in-depth research shows young readers developing strategies for interpreting narratives through encounters with a diverse range of texts and media. The study breaks new ground in its illustration and exploration of the impact of cross-media fertilisation on how young readers come to an understanding of how to make sense of stories. Literacies Across Media offers both a vivid account of a group of young readers coming to terms with texts and a radical perspective on the growth of a generation of young readers. It is thought-provoking, fascinating and highly informative reading not only for theoreticians interested in the reading process, but also teachers, librarians, parents and anybody involved with young people and their texts.

Back Cover

Young people today are learning about reading, viewing and interacting with technology in times of rapid transformation. Literacies Across Media presents a longitudinal study of sixteen children and adolescents, aged between 10 and 14, and explores their reactions to changing media technologies over a period of eighteen months.The study reported in this book, conducted just as the century turned and first published in 2002, offers insights into the behaviours of articulate young people as they encounter a range of text formats, including novels, a picture book, video and DVD, a CD-ROM picture book and a CD-ROM encyclopaedia, computer games, and an electronic book. This new edition:- Re-visits many theoretical insights in terms of continuing developments in technological uptake among young people- Includes an afterword at the end of each chapter addressing historical and national variations in media use- Illustrates the conclusions about the significance of play with a new case study of media change in particular local circumstances.Literacies Across Media has much to offer to teachers, librarians and researchers, in terms of developing a better understanding of how young people move between books and other media, and how they approach new forms of technology. The book will also appeal to professors and students of education and library and information studies.Margaret Mackey is Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Canada.

Author Biography

University of Alberat, Canada

Table of Contents

1. Ecologies of Literacy: Introduction 2. The Study: A Description and a Framework 3. Janice 4. Jack 5. Layered Textual Identities: The Diaries 6. Salience and Fluency: The Beginnings of Stories 7. Remediation: E-Books and DVDs 8. Handling the Text: Picture Books and CD-ROMs 9. Narrative Strategies: Playing Starship Titanic 10. Visual Strategies: Playing Myst 11. The Complexity of Deixis: Reading 'Tunnel' 12. Playing the Text: Conclusions

Long Description

The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. Literacies Across Media explores how a group of boys and girls, aged from ten to fourteen, make sense of narratives in a variety of formats, including print, electronic book, video, DVD, computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these young people over a period of eighteen months as they read, view and play different texts, demonstrating variations and consistencies of interpretative behaviour across different media. Margaret Mackey analyses how the activities of reading, viewing and playing intertwine and affect each other's development. Her in-depth research shows young readers developing strategies for interpreting narratives through encounters with a diverse range of texts and media. The study breaks new ground in its illustration and exploration of the impact of cross-media fertilisation on how young readers come to an understanding of how to make sense of stories. Literacies Across Media offers both a vivid account of a group of young readers coming to terms with texts and a radical perspective on the growth of a generation of young readers. It is thought-provoking, fascinating and highly informative reading not only for theoreticians interested in the reading process, but also teachers, librarians, parents and anybody involved with young people and their texts.

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Is there a need for a paperback version of this book? I really do think there is '

Details ISBN0415407478 Author Margaret Mackey Short Title LITERACIES ACROSS MEDIA 2/E Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0415407478 ISBN-13 9780415407472 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 302.23 Year 2007 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Playing the Text Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DOI 10.1604/9780415407472 UK Release Date 2007-01-11 AU Release Date 2007-01-11 NZ Release Date 2007-01-11 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white Pages 216 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Edition Description 2nd edition Publication Date 2007-01-11 Alternative 9780415407465 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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