Literacies Across Media Playing the Text

Literacies Across Media: Playing the Text Margaret Mackey 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. EducationMackey, Margaret is the author of 'Literacies Across Media Playing the Text' with ISBN 9780415272834 and ISBN 0415272831.