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

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

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Additional Authors
Hayes, Elisabeth
Description
159 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
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
  • Language and languages > Study and teaching
  • Digital media
  • Social media
  • Social Media
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780415602761 (hardback)
  • 0415602769 (hardback)
  • 9780415602778 (pbk.)
  • 0415602777 (pbk.)
  • 9780203830918 (ebook)
  • 0203830911 (ebook)
LCCN
^^2010034570
OCLC
  • 656850422
  • SCSB-12161348
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library