5) Area 7: Engaging Multimodal Literacies with Families and Communities: Illuminating (Re)Imagined Futures

• In Event: Roundtable Session 1

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

For this symposium, we explore the question: How does the use of multimodal literacies with families and communities provide unique opportunities to illuminate (re)imagined futures? We report on three research projects that aimed to understand the ways families and communities experiencing different forms of oppression attempted to overcome their circumstances by using multimodal texts to transgress a variety of epistemological, political, and/or physical boundaries.

Content Area

• AREA 7. Social, Cultural, and Political Issues of Literacy Practices In and Out of School

Individual Presentations

• (Re)Imagining Literate Identities: Literacies Beyond Bars - Tori K. Flint, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Immigrant Mothers and Their Children Traversing Borders and Boundaries through the Co-Authoring of Digital Stories - Ana Christina da Silva Iddings, Vanderbilt University

• (Re)claiming Power through Reggaeton Music Video Production in Habana, Cuba - Eliza D. Butler, University of Arizona