Emerging New Literacy Practices on Twitter

• In Event: Media and Inclusion

Short Description

This study explored in-depth graduate students’ process of “identity work” by examining the new literacies demonstrated through participants’ social media use. The study has implications for educators, graduate students, and administrators in higher education as the findings shed light on graduate students’ critical new literacy practices such as information sharing, purposeful amplification of the marginalized on campus, and attention to technoethics.

Authors

• Contributor: Benjamin Gleason, Iowa State University

• Presenter: Ozlem Karakaya, Iowa State University

• Contributor: Long He, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY