Literacies Across Media: Playing the Text 2e by Mackey

Acknowledgements     ix
Acknowledgements for the second edition     xi
Introduction to the second edition     1
Ecologies of literacy: introduction     3
Snapshots in close-up     3
Changing definitions     4
Reading embedded in daily life     5
Changing ecologies of literacy     7
An ecology of attention     9
Attention and the body     10
Work and play     13
Questions about literacies across media     13
The study     14
The findings     15
Conclusions     17
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty first century     18
The study: a description and a framework     19
The project     19
The chronology of the project     21
The texts     22
The activities     24
The participants     25
The data     26
The data analysis     28
The theoretical and practical precedents     29
Conclusions     31
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty first century     32
Janice     24
Ecologies in close-up     34
Janice     34
Janice's media week     34
Janice and books     35
E-books and picture books     36
The Way Things Work: CD-ROMs versus books     37
A media ecology     37
Re-visiting texts     39
Communicating with computers     41
Heading for high school     43
The asset model     44
Conclusions     45
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     46
Jack     48
Jack     48
Jack's media diary     48
Jack and computers     49
The role of partners     50
Jack's choices     52
The textual world of Men in Black     54
The aesthetics of the e-book     56
Jack on the way to high school     58
An asset model     62
Conclusions     63
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     64
Layered textual identities: the diaries     66
Layers of text and textual identity     66
Daily fiction     67
A 1997 snapshot     68
Five girls     69
Commonalities and divergences     71
Internet use     72
Signature responses     74
Social elements of personal tastes     76
Conclusions     78
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     79
Salience and fluency: the beginnings of stories     81
The fifteen text openings     81
The texts     81
Salience and fluency     83
Choosing among media     87
Text processing in a multimedia environment     88
Conclusions     92
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty first century     93
'Remediation': e-books and DVDs     95
'Remediation'     95
The electronic book     96
'Remediating' the book     97
The students' responses to the e-book     99
Issues of transparency and opacity     101
'Remediating' the video     102
The students' responses to the DVD     104
Changing the experience of film     106
Conclusions     107
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     108
Handling the text: picture books and CD-ROMs     110
Hands      110
Reading the picture book     113
'The most thinking book'     115
Hands at work     116
Bodies at work     118
The affect of hands together     119
Lulu's Enchanted Book     120
Deictics and graphics     124
The Way Things Work     125
Handling the CD-ROM     127
Conclusions     128
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     130
Narrative strategies: playing Starship Titanic     132
Recording the game     132
Starship Titanic     132
Analysing the transcripts     133
Playing Starship Titanic     135
At play on the borders of the diegetic     138
'Soft mastery'     142
Conclusions     145
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     146
The complexity of deixis: reading 'Tunnel'     148
The double deictic of writing and reading     148
Breathing and attention     149
Reading 'Tunnel'     150
Redescribing the deictics of 'Tunnel'     151
Gregory and Jack     153
Jack's reading of 'Tunnel'     153
Gregory's reading of 'Tunnel'     155
Interpretive moments     157
Voice and recognition     158
Gaps and volition     158
Rules of reading     159
Reading the best text possible     160
Public, private and shared readings     161
Conclusions     162
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     163
Playing the text: conclusions     165
One historical moment and its general implications     165
Playing the text     165
Some implications of playfulness in the processing of texts     171
Theories of play and art     172
Re-workings and re-playings     174
An ecology of attention     177
Conditions and constraints of the study     179
Conclusions     180
Afterword: new literacy ecologies of the twenty-first century     184
References     193
Index     198