Mobile literacies: Navigating multimodality, informal learning contexts and personal ICT ecologies

Frawley, JK; Dyson, LE

Mobile literacies: Navigating multimodality, informal learning contexts and personal ICT ecologies

Frawley, JK Dyson, LE

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Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2014, 479 pp. 377 - 390
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Frawley, JK	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dyson, LE	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2014, 479 pp. 377 - 390	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319134154	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1865-0929	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34619
dc.description.abstract	© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. The affordances and ubiquitous uptake of technically convergent devices has led to widespread change in communicative practice. Mobile devices and their wider ICT ecology have afforded people with the means through which to consume and produce multimedia content. In such an environment, literacy can no longer be limited to the reading and writing of word and character-based texts. The emergent field of New Literacies research has contributed early understandings of these new practices. This paper contributes to understanding how these new literacies occur within a mobile and informal learning space. This study details mStories a creative, participatory, digital mobile storytelling project comprised of nine adult participants who created “stories” with their mobile phone device. These stories were shared on the mStories project website, which became a repository for: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and diary-style content. Stories used a range of written text, visual images, sound, music and video. Using content analysis, interview and survey methods this paper describes mobile literacy as characteristically situated and experiential in nature. The mobile device was catalytic to furthering digital writing on other devices within the individual’s wider ICT ecology. This research contributes understandings of multimodal mobile literacies as part of a foundation for framing and understanding mobile learning in informal settings.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Communications in Computer and Information Science	en_US
dc.title	Mobile literacies: Navigating multimodality, informal learning contexts and personal ICT ecologies	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.citation.volume	479	en_US
utslib.for	080502 Mobile Technologies	en_US
dc.location.activity	Istanbul, Turkey
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HCTD - Human Centred Technology Design
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. The affordances and ubiquitous uptake of technically convergent devices has led to widespread change in communicative practice. Mobile devices and their wider ICT ecology have afforded people with the means through which to consume and produce multimedia content. In such an environment, literacy can no longer be limited to the reading and writing of word and character-based texts. The emergent field of New Literacies research has contributed early understandings of these new practices. This paper contributes to understanding how these new literacies occur within a mobile and informal learning space. This study details mStories a creative, participatory, digital mobile storytelling project comprised of nine adult participants who created “stories” with their mobile phone device. These stories were shared on the mStories project website, which became a repository for: fiction, non-fiction, poetry and diary-style content. Stories used a range of written text, visual images, sound, music and video. Using content analysis, interview and survey methods this paper describes mobile literacy as characteristically situated and experiential in nature. The mobile device was catalytic to furthering digital writing on other devices within the individual’s wider ICT ecology. This research contributes understandings of multimodal mobile literacies as part of a foundation for framing and understanding mobile learning in informal settings.

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