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Literacy, culture and creativity in a digital era

Pennington, Martha C. (2017) Literacy, culture and creativity in a digital era. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literacy, Language, Composition, and Culture 17 (2), pp. 259-287. ISSN 1531-4200.

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Abstract

Changing constructions of literacy in online contexts are situating reading and writing within everyday and popular culture activities while also facilitating highly specialized literate and creative activity. I define these two types of literacy as “little-l” literacy and “Big-L” literacy, drawing on distinctions of “Big-C” versus “little-c” culture and creativity, and then show how digital environments are changing writing space and creating new literacies of a third kind. The effects of electronic technologies on the processes and products of literacy, culture, and creativity require a rethinking of traditional views of culture and creativity to bring them up-to-date in the digital era, with implications for pedagogy.

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Item Type: Article
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User: Martha Pennington
Date Deposited: 18 Jun 2024 12:57
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2024 12:57
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53716

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