Multilingual and Multicultural Resources in Technology-Mediated Engagements: Mobilizing the Digital Literacies of Multilingual Students and Families

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium pulls together research from scholars across four different institutions featuring the digital literacy practices enacted by multilingual students and their families across three geographical regions (West Coast, Midwest, and the South) in the U.S. This work positions multilingual students and parents from an assets-based perspective by highlighting their digital media and technology use, and how they use these tools to communicate, create, and make sense of their own positions in society.

Content Area

• Area 10: Literacy Technology and Media

Chair

• Silvia Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado-Boulder

Discussant

• Aria Razfar, University of Illinois at Chicago

Individual Presentations

• Digital Media Practices of Mexican and Chinese Heritage Youth Across Spaces and Scales - Eva Lam, Northwestern University; P Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

• "Para que aprendan de su país": Parents’ Use of Digital Resources to Reconstruct the Homeland - Silvia Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado-Boulder

• Confronting Inequities through Critical Computational Literacy in a Transmedia Product - Lee Clifford, Saint Mary's College of California