This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces as they intersect in the 21st century. The chapters focus on “languaging” - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces, bringing together studies that highlight the constant movement between analogue-virtual dimensions that continuously re-shape participants' identity positionings. Languaging is understood as the deployment of one or more than one language variety, modality, embodiment, etc in human meaning-making across spaces. Languaging activities are explored through a multitude of literary artefacts, genres, media, and modes produced in and across sites. The authors go beyond “best practice” approaches and instead present “how-to-explore” communicative practices for researchers, learners and teachers. This book will be of interest to readers situated in the areas of literacy, literature, bi/multilingualism, multimodality, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and related fields.
Author(s): Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Ylva Lindberg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 436
Tags: Technology And Digital Education
Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxvi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
On Epistemological Issues in Technologically Infused Spaces: Notes on Virtual Sites for Learning (Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg)....Pages 3-25
Inscriptions and Digitalization Initiatives Across Time in the Nation-State of Sweden: The Relevance of Shifts and Continuities in Policy Accounts for Teachers’ Work (Lars Almén, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta)....Pages 27-62
Authenticity of Language Practices in Virtual Learning Sites (Jonathan R. White)....Pages 63-93
Front Matter ....Pages 95-95
Wikipedia’s Falling Stars. Arguments for Demotion When Articles Lose Their Status as Featured Articles (Maria Mattus)....Pages 97-120
The Story Event “The Beauty and the Beast” in Second Life: Literature Studies and the (Non-)Adoption of Virtual Worlds (Ylva Lindberg)....Pages 121-152
Text Universe: A Pedagogical Strategy to Teach Literary Classics (Anette Svensson, Stefan Lundström)....Pages 153-180
Wikipedia as a Virtual Learning Site and a Multilingual Languaging Site (Sverker Johansson, Ylva Lindberg)....Pages 181-203
Front Matter ....Pages 205-205
“Oh It Was a Woman! Had I Known I Would Have Reacted Otherwise!”: Developing Digital Methods to Switch Identity-Related Properties in Order to Reveal Linguistic Stereotyping (Mattias Lindvall-Östling, Mats Deutschmann, Anders Steinvall)....Pages 207-239
“Going on Trial”: Teachers’ Team Performance in Social Media Groups When Facing Problematic Work-Related Issues (Louise Peterson, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Thomas Hillman, Mona Lundin, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt)....Pages 241-268
The Conceptualization of Time, Space, and the Body in Virtual Sites and the Impact on Language Learner Identities (Regine Hampel)....Pages 269-294
Self-Directed Language Learning: A Semiotic Analysis of a Language Learning App (Wing Yee Jenifer Ho)....Pages 295-327
Front Matter ....Pages 329-329
Handling Languaging During Empirical Research: Ethnography as Action in and Across Time and Physical-Virtual Sites (Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg, Annaliina Gynne)....Pages 331-382
On Methodology and the Educational Sciences—Reflections on the ViLS Contributions (Ylva Lindberg)....Pages 383-401
Back Matter ....Pages 403-412
