Undoing the Digital by Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant - 9781138326545

Taylor & Francis

Undoing the DigitalSociomaterialism and Literacy Education\nAuthor(s): Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138326545, 978-1138326545\nSynopsis\nUndoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative analysis of literacy in the context of digital communication. \n\nIntroducing a series of conceptual tools and examples, the book examines digital communication as an emergent interweaving of social, material and semiotic resources. The perspective invites literacy research to focus more on the relations associated with the process of making meaning: the new collaborations, stories, conceptualisations, directions, and intentions that take shape in, and also help to shape, the contemporary mediascape. \n\nDrawing on studies conducted in .