The Critical Role of Audience in Digital Writing

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Papers on this panel reflect the work of literacy scholars interrogating the multifaceted ways in which young people are navigating and negotiating audience across public, digital terrain. Digital technologies offer novel methods for audience engagement across local and distal networked public spaces. Panel papers reflect diverse participants’ strategic attentiveness to dynamic conceptualizations of audience specific to youth’s digital composition when shared in public spaces. Panelists share a vested interest in understanding the implications for youth literacies and learning that are shaped through these complex negotiations. Papers reflect cutting edge scholarship exploring the implications for youth digital composition when writing is disseminated publicly.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Rebecca Beucher, Illinois State University

Papers

• The Networked Audience: A Multidimensional Framework - Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania

• "There's Football Gabriel, and There's Gabriel, Gabriel": Negotiating Double-Consciousness During Digital Personal Storytelling for Public Consumption - Rebecca Beucher, Illinois State University; Elizabeth M. Dutro, University of Colorado Boulder

• Examining an Adolescent Writer's Networked Audience Practices Across Contexts: Insights From a Longitudinal Case Study - Jayne C. Lammers, University of Rochester

• When Writing Goes Public: Digital Audiences as Networked Publics in Story-Sharing Apps - Ksenia A Korobkova, University of California - Irvine

Discussant

• Michele Knobel, Montclair State University