The characteristics of contemporary societies are increasingly theorized as global, fluid, and networked. These conditions underpin the emerging knowledge economy as it is shaped by the societal and technological forces of late capitalism. These shifts and developments have significantly affected the communicational landscape of the 21st century. A key aspect of this is the reconfiguration of the representational and communicational resources of image, action, sound, and so on in new multimodal ensembles. The terrain of communication is changing in profound ways and extends to schools and ubiquitous elements of everyday life, even if these changes are occurring to different degrees and at uneven rates. It is against this backdrop that this critical review explores school multimodality and literacy and asks what these changes mean for being literate in this new landscape of the 21st century.
In this article, Jewitt reviews research into multimodality and literacy in the classroom, and asks what these changes mean for being literate in contemporary society, where digital media are embedded in everyday literacy practices. Jewitt argues that the time for associating learning primarily with language and print literacy is over.
Multimodality, “Reading”, and “Writing” for the 21st Century.
Authors:
Jewitt, Carey1 c.jewitt@ioe.ac.uk
Source:
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. Sep2005, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p315-331. 17p.
The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English.
Authors:
Jewitt, Carey1
Source:
Visual Communication; Jun2002, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p171-195, 25p
Towards a Metalanguage for Multiliteracies Education: Describing the Meaning-Making Resources of Language-Image Interaction
Author(s):
Unsworth, Len
Source:
English Teaching: Practice and Critique, v5 n1 p55-76 May 2006. 22 pp.
One of my main areas of interest/despair is the way in which the National Literacy Strategy has led to a narrow conception of what literacy actually is and how
Jewitt comments on the use of image and writing in a CD-ROM version of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". She also discusses the inherent tension in schools as they promote new technology but test students through traditional technology.
R. Utescher, and S. Zarrieß. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Beyond Vision and LANguage: inTEgrating Real-world kNowledge (LANTERN), page 53--60. Kyiv, Ukraine, Association for Computational Linguistics, (April 2021)