Chapter 1: Central Issues in New Literacies and New Literacies Research (from Handbook of New Literacies Research, 2008) (original) (raw)
The handbook of research in new literacies explores an increasingly urgent question for educational research: How do the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) alter the nature of literacy? The answers are likely to provide some of the most important insights about our literacy lives that we may acquire during this century. The answers will also be some of the hardest to obtain, largely because we currently lack adequate theories , constructs, and methods to match the complexity of the question. This volume begins the important work required to integrate the many insights found in multiple lines of research so that we might explore this question in all of the richness and complexity that it deserves. We seek to advance the study of new literacies by bringing together, for the first time, research taking place around the world in widely diverse disciplines , with even more diverse theoretical frameworks and still more diverse ER56528_Book.indb 1 1/18/08 10:37:48 AM
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