Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture

by Donna E. Alvermann (Editor)

Adolescents’ Online Connecting Classrooms, Digital Media, and Popular Culture is a compilation of new work that makes concrete connections between what the research literature portrays and what teachers, school librarians, and media specialists know to be the case in their own situations. The authors (educators and researchers who span three continents) focus on ways to incorporate and use the digital literacies that young people bring to school.

223 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2010

About the author

Donna E. Alvermann teaches courses in popular culture and adolescent literacy at the University of Georgia, where she holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor in Language and Literacy Education. Donna has been a middle/junior high school teacher in Houston, Texas, and Elmira, New York. She has been a fan of “all things pop culture” since the mid-1950s, when she was president of the James Dean Fan Club. Currently, she counts Facebook, YouTube, and Second Life among her favorite pop culture texts.

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading the book for background information, but I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that, despite its 2010 publication date, it is already woefully out of date. Hopefully, the concepts in this volume will be updated soon.