mStories : understanding the new literacies of mobile devices through a creative participatory project

Frawley, JK

mStories : understanding the new literacies of mobile devices through a creative participatory project

Frawley, JK

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Frawley, JK
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-11T05:23:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:53:46Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-11T05:23:00Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:53:46Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/20420
dc.description.abstract	Traditional discussions on literacy have focused on the reading and writing of alphabet and character-based texts. However, innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) have emphasised new forms of literacy that include still and moving image, and new modes of document reception and production. These ‘new’ literacies have become a significant area of research, however to date these understandings have been built without reference to the adult user, the informal learner and the mobile device. Though mobile devices enable increasingly multimodal behaviours little is known about how a device’s mobility affects these literacy practices. As Smartphone ownership increases and the semiotic landscape becomes increasingly multimodal there is a need for understandings of multiliteracies research to be applied and extended to the multimodal meaning-making afforded by mobile devices. In August 2011 mStories, a creative participatory action research project, was established by the researcher. Working with nine participants from Australia and the UK, mStories facilitates the creation and sharing of user generated stories created with mobile devices; in addition to changing user practice through action, this project contributes to understandings of multimodal mobile literacies through survey and interview research, and analysis of the mStories products. Grounded in the participant’s experiences and semiotic products, this thesis develops an understanding of literacy from the underrepresented adult user and the mobile technology that they use. From data derived from this participatory project, this thesis characterises mobile practice as one that is situated, locative, and experiential in nature; This project finds that mobile devices are catalytic to meaning-making within a wider ICT ecology.	en_US
dc.format	Thesis (BSc(Hons))	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/1379
dc.title	mStories : understanding the new literacies of mobile devices through a creative participatory project	en_US
dc.type	Thesis
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Traditional discussions on literacy have focused on the reading and writing of alphabet and character-based texts. However, innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) have emphasised new forms of literacy that include still and moving image, and new modes of document reception and production. These ‘new’ literacies have become a significant area of research, however to date these understandings have been built without reference to the adult user, the informal learner and the mobile device. Though mobile devices enable increasingly multimodal behaviours little is known about how a device’s mobility affects these literacy practices. As Smartphone ownership increases and the semiotic landscape becomes increasingly multimodal there is a need for understandings of multiliteracies research to be applied and extended to the multimodal meaning-making afforded by mobile devices. In August 2011 mStories, a creative participatory action research project, was established by the researcher. Working with nine participants from Australia and the UK, mStories facilitates the creation and sharing of user generated stories created with mobile devices; in addition to changing user practice through action, this project contributes to understandings of multimodal mobile literacies through survey and interview research, and analysis of the mStories products. Grounded in the participant’s experiences and semiotic products, this thesis develops an understanding of literacy from the underrepresented adult user and the mobile technology that they use. From data derived from this participatory project, this thesis characterises mobile practice as one that is situated, locative, and experiential in nature; This project finds that mobile devices are catalytic to meaning-making within a wider ICT ecology.

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