Digital Literacies for Global Meaning-Making: Learning From Four Cases From the Global South

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel responds to calls advocating for including experiences and perspectives from less heard from parts of the world to disrupt the cyclical reproduction of inequity in literacy research and practice around the globe. The papers center voices of local teachers and learners, sharing lessons from new literacies professional development in Kenya, the social media literacies of marginalized Indian youth, the role of digital literacies for second language education in Colombia, and the agentic digital literacies of Indonesian youth. Together, we work against the dominance of Western perspectives in literacy research to build theory, recommend practices, and move the field forward in ways that resonate with the experiences of learners from and in the Global South.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction / Division C - Section 1a: Literacy

Chair

• Jayne C. Lammers, University of Rochester

Papers

• A Grassroots Effort to Learn New Literacies and Inquiry in Rural Kenya - Shea Kerkhoff, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Hiller A. Spires, North Carolina State University; Peter Wanyonyi

• Youth Positioning on and Vis-à-Vis Social Media: A Participatory Connective Ethnographic Research in India - Rabani Garg

• Digital Literacies Meet Second-Language Instruction in Colombia: Developing Language Learning and Digital Agency - Zeidy Y. Agudelo-Lopera; Edison F. Castrillón-Ángel

• Indonesian Secondary Students' Agentic Digital Literacies: Expanding the National Narrative Toward Empowering Literacy Education - Jayne C. Lammers, University of Rochester; Puji Astuti, State University of Semarang

Discussant

• Raúl Alberto Mora, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana