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POP CULTURE/DIGITAL LITERACIES
Critical Thinking: Foundational for Digital Literacies and Democracy
Article first published online: 11 SEP 2012
DOI: 10.1002/JAAL.00096
© 2012 International Reading Association
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How to Cite
(2012). Critical Thinking: Foundational for Digital Literacies and Democracy. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56(1), 14–17. doi: 10.1002/jaal.96
Publication History
- Issue published online: 11 SEP 2012
- Article first published online: 11 SEP 2012
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Keywords:
- Digital/media literacies ;
- Critical analysis;
- Distance education, distance learning;
- Information and communication technologies;
- Information literacy ;
- Libraries ;
- New literacies;
- Popular culture;
- Specific media (hypertext, Internet, film, music, etc.);
- Visual literacy;
- Theoretical perspectives ;
- Behavioral;
- Cognitive;
- Constructionism;
- Constructivism;
- Critical literacy;
- Critical pedagogy;
- Critical theory;
- Developmental;
- Feminist;
- Gender issues, sexual orientation;
- Linguistics;
- Literary theory;
- Neuropsychological;
- Postmodernism;
- Poststructuralism;
- Psycholinguistic;
- Schema theory;
- Semiotics;
- Sociocognitive;
- Sociocultural;
- Socioeconomic;
- Sociolinguistic;
- Transactional;
- Transformative;
- Vygotskian ;
- To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply? ;
- Early adolescence ;
- Adolescence
Abstract
This column addresses the importance of developing critical thinking to meet the demands of 21st-century literacies and participatory democracy. The author argues for a critical approach to digital literacies that explores the sociological nature of literacy practices. Students examine examples of new literacies and analyze how ideologies are represented in multimodal texts. Then students use critical understandings of how these texts work in the world to create their own multimodal texts that can act as counter narratives pushing back against mainstream ideologies that exclude diverse perspectives.