Readings | New Media Literacies | Comparative Media Studies/Writing

Course readings.
LEC #	READINGS
Weeks 1 and 2: Introduction to new media literacies Where is media literacy headed? What's at stake?
1	No assigned readings
2	"2006 Person of the Year: You." Time 168, no. 26 (December 25, 2006/January 1, 2007). Jenkins, Henry, et al. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. MacArthur Foundation white paper. (PDF - 1.8 MB) (Courtesy of Prof. Henry Jenkins. Used with permission.)
3	Hobbs, Renee. "The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy Movement." ———. "Advertising, Persuasion, and Propaganda." In Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2007. ISBN: 0978807747391. Buckingham, David. "Will Media Education Ever Escape the Effects Debate?" Telemedium 52, no. 3 (2005): 17-21.
Week 3: Origins of literacy in the west Where does literacy come from? Where is it found?
4	Plato. Phaedrus. Translated by R. Hackforth. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1972 (reprint of 1952 edition). ISBN: 9780521097031. Ong, Walter. "Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought." In Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Ellen Cushman, et al. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001, pp. 19-31. ISBN: 9780312250423.
5	Brandt, D. "Strong Text: Opacity, Autonomy, and Anonymity." In Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990, pp. 13-32. ISBN: 9780809315703. Street, Brian. "The 'Ideological' Model." In Literacy in Theory and Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984, pp. 95-125. ISBN: 9780521247856.
Week 4: Literacy and the media How is literacy portrayed in media and schools? What is the "literacy myth"?
6	Gee, James Paul. "Literacy and the Literacy Myth." In Social Linguistics and Literacies. London, England: Routledge Farmer, 1996. ISBN: 9780748404995. Graff, H. "The Ideologies of Literacy, Past and Present." In The Labyrinths of Literacy. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995, pp. 3-31 and 47-60.
7	Sheils, Merrill. "Why Johnny Can't Write." Newsweek (December 8, 1975): 58. Jenkins, H. "Why Heather Can Write: Media literacy and the Harry Potter Wars." In Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006, pp. 169-205. ISBN: 9780814742815. Hobbs, Renee. "Storytelling Structures, Close Readings, and Point of View." In Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2007, pp. 37-59. ISBN: 0978807747391.
Week 5: Learning week Forums; Photoshop and image editing
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Week 6: New literacies and new media, part 1 What are the new literacy studies? What do they have to do with media?
10	Gee, J. P. "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction and What is Literacy?" In Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook. Edited by Ellen Cushman, et al. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001, pp. 525-544. ISBN: 9780312250423. Lankshear, C., and M. Knobel. "From 'Reading' to 'New Literacies.'" In New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning. Berkshire, England: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 7-28. ISBN: 9780335220106.
11	Buckingham, David. "Media Literacies." In Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780745628295. Dyson, A. H. "Coach Bombay's Kids Learn to Write: Children's Appropriation of Media Material for School Literacy." Research in the Teaching of English 33, no. 4 (1999): 367-402.
Week 7: New literacies and new media, part 2
12	Lankshear, C., and M. Knobel. "New Literacies and the Challenge of Mindsets." In New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning. Berkshire, England: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 29-62. ISBN: 9780335220106.
13	Lankshear, C., and M. Knobel. "'New Literacies': Concepts and Practices." In New Literacies: Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning. Berkshire, England: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 63-102. ISBN: 9780335220106.
Week 8: Multimodality What counts as a text in the new media literacies?
14	Kress, G., and T. Van Leeuwen. "Introduction." In Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1-23. ISBN: 9780340662922. ———. "Production." In Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 66-85. ISBN: 9780340662922.
Week 9: Learning week Animation; Podcasting
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Week 10: Learning week
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Week 11: Situated learning Wiki; Where does learning happen?
18	Brown, John Seely, Allan Collins, and Paul Duguid. "Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning." Educational Researcher 18, no. 1 (January-February 1989): 32-42.
Week 12: Embodied cognition How do we learn, know, interpret and produce these new media?
19	Gee, J. P. "Simulations and Bodies." In Situated Language and Learning: A Critique of Traditional Schooling. London, England: Routledge, 2004, pp. 39-56. ISBN: 9780415317771. Dourish, P. "Being-in-the-world: Embodied Interaction." In Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 99-126. ISBN: 9780262041966.
20	Clark, A. "Plastic Brains and Hybrid Minds." In Natural Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 59-87. Kenner, C. "Embodied Knowledges: Young Children's Engagement with the Act of Writing." In Multimodal Literacy. Edited by C. Jewitt and G. Kress. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 88-106.
Week 13: Multiliteracies What do we propose for the future of media literacies?
21	Cope, B., and M. Kalantzis. "Multiliteracies: The Beginnings of An Idea." In Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London, England: Routledge, 1999, pp. 3-8. ISBN: 9780415214209. New London Group. "A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures." In Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London, England: Routledge, 1999, pp. 9-37. ISBN: 9780415214209.
22	Kress, G. "Design and Transformation: New Theories of Meaning." In Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures. London, England: Routledge, 1999, pp. 153-161. ISBN: 9780415214209.
Week 14: Learning week Games and game design; Video editing
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