Language, Literacy, and Technology
Published on 28. May 2015
978-1-316-37135-0 (ISBN)
Description
From the origins of writing to today's computer-mediated communication, material technologies shape how we read and write, how we construe and share knowledge, and ultimately how we understand ourselves in relation to the world. However, communication technologies are themselves designed in particular social and cultural contexts and their use is adapted in creative ways by individuals. In this book, Richard Kern explores how technology matters to language and the ways in which we use it. Kern reveals how material, social and individual resources interact in the design of textual meaning, and how that interaction plays out across contexts of communication, different situations of technological mediation, and different moments in time. Showing how people have adapted visual forms to various media as well as to social needs, this study culminates in five fundamental principles to guide language and literacy education in a period of rapid technological and social change.
Reviews / Votes
'Richard Kern offers striking insights into how digital media transform the designs of meaning-at-a-distance - both the artifacts of communication and the social relationships established in and through these designs.' Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois '... the book is extremely well researched, documented, and articulated. Richard Kern is truly to be commended for the breadth of the content discussed as well as the depth of the insights into the interdependencies that tie language, literacy, and technology together.' Lionel Mathieu, LinguistMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 Tables, black and white; 32 Halftones, unspecified; 32 Halftones, black and white; 12 Line drawings, black and white
File size
7,22 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-316-37135-0 (9781316371350)
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Richard Kern
Language, Literacy, and Technology
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05/2015
Cambridge University Press
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Person
Richard Kern is Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Literacy and Language Teaching (2000), co-editor of Decrire la conversation en ligne (2011), and co-editor of Network-based Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is Associate Editor of the journal Language Learning and Technology and has published many articles and chapters related to language, literacy, and technology.
Content
Introduction; Part I. Designing Meaning: 1. Communication by design; 2. Material resources: the medium matters; 3. Social ecologies; 4. The individual and design; Part II. Interactions of the Material, the Social, and the Individual: 5. Ancient writing in Mesopotamia; 6. Paper and print; 7. Writing redesigned: electronically mediated discourse; 8. Multimodal discourse; Part III. Educational Implications: 9. Principles and goals in language and literacy education; 10. Toward a relational pedagogy.
