Changing Dimensions of Literacies: Multiliteracies, Transliteracies, New Media Literacies, and Biliteracies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

For over two decades, researchers have been (re)defining literacy, often contemplating extensions of literacies and their ‘new’ dimensions (New London Group, 1996; Street, 1984) that recognize meaning making as an ever-evolving social practice. This proposed symposium continues the dialogue by bringing together scholars to address multiliteracies, transliteracies, new media literacies and biliteracies to explore how various understandings of literacy may inform one another and/or transform traditional, alphabetical and standardizing notions of literacy. In so doing, there are opportunities for presenters and participants to consider the changing dimensions of literacies and the future education of diverse democracies.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Saint John's University

Papers

• Dimensions of Multiliteracies - Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Transliteracies: A Theoretical Framework - Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania; Anna Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nathan C. Phillips, University of Illinois at Chicago

• The Role of New Media in Expanding the Construct of Literacies - Justin Olmanson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Zoe Falls, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• New Directions in Biliteracy - Eurydice B. Bauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Soria Elizabeth Colomer, Oregon State University

Discussant

• William Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign