Literacies through Media: Identity and Discourse in the Process of Constructing a Web Site

Autor/inn/en	Del-Castillo, Hector; Garcia-Varela, Ana Belen; Lacasa, Pilar
Titel	Literacies through Media: Identity and Discourse in the Process of Constructing a Web Site
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Research, 39 (2003) 8, S.885-891 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0883-0355
DOI	10.1016/j.ijer.2004.11.010
Schlagwörter	Internet; Web Sites; Electronic Publishing; Student Writing Models; Discourse Modes; Discourse Communities; Discourse Analysis; Group Experience; Group Dynamics; Hypermedia; Social Psychology; Information Technology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Web-Design; Elektronisches Publizieren; Diskursethik; Diskursanalyse; Gruppendynamik; Sozialpsychologie; Informationstechnologie
Abstract	In this research note we explore how children construct their identity in the context of a literacy practice: developing written and audio-visual texts in small-group situation to be published on the Internet. Through their dialogue, a shared identity is growing on the context, and every children create an identity as member of a community in which is included [Wenger, E. (1998). "Communities of practice. Learning meaning and identity." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]. Methodologically we have adopted, on one hand, an ethnographic perspective (Atkinson et al., 2001) and, on the other, an action-research perspective [Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (Eds.) (2001). "Handbook of action research." London, Thousand oaks Sage]. We analysed the data collected in five groups in an after-school workshop, during a one-month period with eight two-hour sessions. It is particularly important to compare the history of every group creates a different identity for its page. Our findings illustrate how the participants, with their multiple identities [Gee, J.P. (1999). "An introduction to discovers analysis. Theory and method." London, New York: Routledge], generate a collective identity orientated to a common audience writing as a group, and negotiating during their dialogue. We analyse how these multiple identities turn into a shared identity that, finally, is shown in the product (the Web site). The discussion of our results reveals how the process of creating the web pages, in the situation described above, depends on the shared construction of meanings among the participants. Writing on the Internet about the media facilitates multiple dialogues and provides opportunities to educate children in the use of multiliteracies. (Author).
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