Literacy, Language, and the Exploration of an Online Text: Where Are We Now?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Presenters explore a YouTube video featuring a young boy named Asa telling a story – The Scared is Scared (Giaever, 2013) – through three theoretical frames rooted in multiliteracies approaches. Paper One explores how the work of Deleuze and Guattari (1987) challenges traditional notions of narrative construction. Paper Two draws on multimodal and socio-cultural views of literacy to explore how play and remixing interact and intertwine as children construct meaning. Paper Three draws on mediated discourse theory to examine how children’s play with digital media engages embodied participation. This unique symposium will feature paper presentations followed by five minutes of comments by each presenter to name, explore, and connect ideas across the three presentations. A discussant will close the session.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Language and Social Processes

Chair

• Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• A Narrative Under Construction: The Scared Is Scared - Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Examining Fluidity, Complexity, and Emergence in Young Children's Action Texts - Karen E. Wohlwend, Indiana University - Bloomington

• Looking for Mimesis and Remix in The Scared Is Scared - Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University

Discussant

• David M. Bloome, The Ohio State University