Literacy Theories for the Digital Age

Kathy A. Mills is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Kathy's research interests include literacy, digital media, education research paradigms, critical sociology, ethnography, classroom observation, discourse analysis, and multimodal analysis. She is Associate Editor of the Australian Educational Researcher and her previous works include The Multiliteracies Classroom (Multilingual Matters, 2011).

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForewordPrefaceRhizomatic Literacy TheoriesChapter 1: Globalisation, Mobile Lives and Schooling in the Digital TurnChapter 2: Socio-Cultural LiteraciesChapter 3: Critical LiteraciesChapter 4: Multimodal LiteraciesChapter 5: Socio-Spatial Literacies           Chapter 6: Socio-Material Literacies        Chapter 7: Sensory Literacies     References

Digital and social media, multimedia, multimodality, and massive social and cultural changes in our global world are transforming what literacy is and how we ought to study it.  Kathy Mills’ book is, by far and away, the best guide yet to this new world.  It is the New 'New Literacy Studies'.