34.093 - Moving Data Across Methods of Analysis: Collaborative Research on the Complexities of Literacy Activity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

It has become clear that many fundamental questions about literacy development and practice must be addressed by research that traces movements across multiple settings, long time spans, and varied activities. Analysis of such data, however, is challenging, particularly figuring out how to sustain through analysis and reporting the complexities that routinely emerge in such designs. This session reports on a collaboration in which four literacy scholars working across disciplinary and methodological traditions exchange data from longitudinal and mobile studies, engage in analyses of all four data sets around individual methodological themes, share observations (capturing the dialogue), and then use this collaborative triangulation to attend to the complexity and mobility of literate activity.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Brice Nordquist, Syracuse University

Papers

• Experimenting With Data Representations: Collaborative Efforts to "Think Visually" With Data - Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania

• Integrative Analysis of Trajectories of Literate Activity and Literate Becoming in Four Data Sets - Paul A. Prior, University of Illinois

• Following Embodied Practice Across Space-Time and Shared Data - Brice Nordquist, Syracuse University

• The Elasticity of "Likeness": Resonance Mapping of Objects in (Cyber)Space - Anna Smith, Illinois State University

Discussant

• Patrick William Berry, Syracuse University