Lemke-Metamedia Literacy »

Lemke, J. L. “Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meaning and Media.” In Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook. Carolyn Handa, ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2004.
In “Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meaning and Media,” J.L. Lemke argues that literacy must be defined within the genre in which it emerged in order to comprehend each of the [...]

Hobbs & Frost–Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills »

Hobbs, Renee and Richard Frost. “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills.” Reading Research Quarterly. 38.3 (Summer 2003): 330-355.
In “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills” (2003), Hobbs and Frost explore the acquisition of media-literacy skills in a yearlong high school English course and demonstrate how this class improved the literacy of the students. Examining one specific [...]

Goodfellow: Online Literacies and Learning-A Precis and Evaluation »

Goodfellow, Robin: Online Literacies and Learning: Operational, Cultural and Critical Dimensions. Language and Education 18.5 (2004): 379-399.
In “Online Literacies and Learning,” Robin Goodfellow argues that online environments provide immense ways of improving the social literacies of todays students and examines a manner of research which explores the variation in relationships between teacher and student both [...]