Young Refugee Women’s Negotiation of Power Through Multimodal Literacy Practices in Digital Spaces

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  In Roundtable Session: Multimodal, Digital Composing With Children and Adolescents

Abstract

Drawing on research from New Literacy Studies and multimodality, this qualitative study focuses on literacy practices of nine young women who resettled as refugees. Literacy practices are not only ideological, but that they also produce spaces in which young women with experiences of displacement, migration, and transnationalism negotiate their complex social, political, and historical contexts in their lived experiences. The goal of this paper is to examine the intersections between power and literacy practices, and specifically digital multimodal literacy practices, to better understand how multilayered dimensions of power, including global and local social, cultural, and linguistic contexts, interconnect with meaning production in digital spaces.

Author

• Delila Omerbasic, Tulane University