As digital platforms become increasingly common and even the norm for literacy learning environments, established frameworks, pedagogies, and theories do not always translate neatly to these new contexts. This edited volume explores the complex relationship between digital platforms and literacies, understanding that they have become an unavoidable part of the literacy and education ecosystem. The chapters address a range of contexts and considerations around the social, technical, and economic complexities of platform technologies and how they have remade literacy teaching and learning. Insightful and innovative, this is key reading for literacy scholars, researchers, and graduate students.
Edited by:
T. Philip Nichols,
Antero Garcia
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032510781
ISBN 10: 1032510781
Series: Expanding Literacies in Education
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 27 June 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Part 1: Histories 1. New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs 2. Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions 3. Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and from Manuscript Central 4. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube 5. Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era Part 2: Pedagogies 6. Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy, and Unexpected Labor 7. Human and Non-Human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice 8. Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance 9. Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software 10. Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers Part 3: Possibilities 11. As We May Mark 12. Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach 13. Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation 14. Towards a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism
T. Philip Nichols is Associate Professor of English Education at Baylor University. Antero Garcia is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University.
