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Language and learning in the digital age / James Paul Gee and Elisabeth R. Hayes.

Title
  1. Language and learning in the digital age / James Paul Gee and Elisabeth R. Hayes.
Published by
  1. Abingdon, Oxon. [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Author
  1. Gee, James Paul

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Additional authors
  1. Hayes, Elisabeth
Description
  1. 159 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. In the context of moral panics surrounding social media, the internet and video games and concerns over how digital media is affecting the young and their ability to learn and communicate effectively, this book puts forward arguments for how digital media is transforming language, literacy and education.
Subject
  1. Language and languages > Study and teaching
  2. Digital media
  3. Social media
  4. Social Media
Contents
  1. Language -- Literacy -- Language and interaction -- New kinds of people and relationships -- Literacy and interpretation -- School -- School and passionate affinity spaces -- Play and theory crafting -- Cats, passion, and expertise -- The return of the amateur and the new capitalism -- Words, images, and experiences -- Three social formations -- Multitasking, diversity, and commonality.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain