Knowledge to Action and Awareness to Agency: Examining African American Fathers' Digital Literacy Practices

• In Event: 42.083 - Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: 42.083-18 - Literacies Across Families, Schools, and Communities

Abstract

This research explores eight, low and middle-income, African American fathers’ digital literacy practices and their contributions to their children’s education. Using a mixed methods research design and critical sociocultural theory, this research examines what fathers do and how they use digital tools in their everyday practices that produce power structures, identities, and agencies in and out of their homes. Given these foci, this research examines these fathers’ ideologies of digital use to support their children, and the relative effects of their digital learning on their children’s education. To achieve equitable educational opportunities for all families, this research seeks to document and theorize how these fathers’ digital literacies and social practices influence their children’s learning experiences in and out of school.

Author

• Tisha Lewis Ellison, The University of Georgia