The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change
calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a
nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge
as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated.
In today's world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and
rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be
understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To
prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the
book is organised around three themes - Mind and Materiality; Body and
Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics - to shape readers'
understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes,
Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for
next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and
established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of
texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features
recommendations for educational and professional practice.