Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms as Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium inquires into ‘cross-platform’ practices and the increasing embeddedness of multiple digital media platforms in people’s everyday flow of practices. Within this postdigital era, when ‘digital’ can no longer be separated from everyday sociomaterial practice, the panelists illuminate the epistemological, methodological, and theoretical shifts needed to attend to these fluid sociotechnical assemblages. While education research has paid attention to single platforms in varied research contexts– in and out of schools and with teachers and students, cross-platform practices are undertheorized. Convening scholars and educators from the field of literacy studies and education technology whose work cuts across theories, methods, and research contexts, interrogate this emergence of cross-platform practices and its implications for teaching, learning, and practice and research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Media, Culture, and Learning

Chair

• Rabani Garg, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• “The Whole Thing is Pretty Meta”: Capturing Youth Digital Composition Across Digital Assemblages - Clara Abbott, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Elizabeth Talian, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Freed, University of Pennsylvania; Rabani Garg, University of Pennsylvania

• “Some of it is Luck”; Youth’s Cross-platform Media Making Practices that Resist, and Challenge Algorithms - Rabani Garg, University of Pennsylvania

• Literacies of Contention in/for Digital Civic Ecologies - T. Philip Nichols, Baylor University; Alexandra Thrall, Baylor University; Kevin R. Magill, Baylor University; Christine Derbyshire, Independent Researcher

• Traversing the Interconnected: Youth Platform Navigation in Gaming and Media Literacy Contexts - Joel De Jesus Lovos, University of California - Santa Cruz; Mila Re, University of California - Santa Cruz; Emanuel Suarez Jimenez, University of California - Santa Cruz; Roberto de Roock, University of California - Santa Cruz

Discussant

• Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania