Monday, August 07, 2006

Current Projects 8-7-06

Digital Design: Reader Reviews in Online Fanfiction in the New Literacies Sampler.

A New Literacies Sampler
CONTENTS
Introduction: Sampling ‘the new’, Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel
Chapter 1 "You won't be needing your laptops today": Wired bodies in the wire-less classroom, Kevin Leander
Chapter 2 Popular websites in adolescents’ out-of-school lives, Jennifer Stone
Chapter 3 Role play gaming, agency and authority, Jessica Hammer
Chapter 4 Pleasure, learning, video games and life: The projective stance, James Paul Gee
Chapter 5 Digital Design: English Language Learners and Reader Reviews in Online Fanfiction, Rebecca Black
Chapter 6 Narrative, literacy and identity in adolescent fan fiction, Angela Thomas
Chapter 7 Looking from the inside out: Academic blogging as new literacy, Julia Davies and Guy Merchant
Chapter 8 Online memes, affinities and cultural production, Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear
Chapter 9 New literacies, Cynthia Lewis

Recent Publications 8-07-06

My article Language, Culture, and Identity in Online Fanfiction was published in the most recent volume of e-learning. Contents listed below.

SPECIAL ISSUE
Digital InterfacesGuest Editor: ANGELA THOMAS
Editorial, pages 124‑125
Angela Thomas. ‘MSN was the Next Big Thing after Beanie Babies’: children’s virtual experiences as an interface to their identities and their everyday lives, pages 126‑142
Sally Humphrey. ‘Getting the Reader On Side’: exploring adolescent online political discourse, pages 143‑157
Barbara J. Guzzetti. Cybergirls: negotiating social identities on cybersites, pages 158‑169
Rebecca W. Black. Language, Culture and Identity in Online Fanfiction, pages 170‑184
Kevin Leander & Amy Frank. The Aesthetic Production and Distribution of Image/Subjects among Online Youth, pages 185‑206
Lalitha Vasudevan. Making Known Differently: engaging visual modalities as spaces to author new selves, pages 207‑216
Julia Davies. Affinities and Beyond! Developing Ways of Seeing in Online Spaces, pages 217‑234
Guy Merchant. Identity, Social Networks and Online Communication, pages 235‑244
Jonathan Paul Marshall. Categories, Gender and Online Community, pages 245‑262
BOOK REVIEW
E-Literature for Children: enhancing digital literacy learning (Len Unsworth), reviewed by Angela Thomas, pages 263‑264
DOI: 10.2304/elea.2006.3.2.263 VIEW FULL TEXT

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Namesake

For those of you that are not Gen Xers: Video Killed the Radio Star is... read more




After all these years, I still haven't figured out what she's doing in that tube...

California comes from fanfiction?

According to Boing Boing, California got it's name from fanfiction:

"California is named after the island of California, home of Queen Calafia, her beautiful black amazons and their man-eating griffins, as all detailed in Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo's Las Sergas de Esplandian, which was the Sword of Shanarra of its day, a highly unauthorized but popular sequel to the much more highly respected Amadis de Gaul, more The Lord of the Rings of its day." read more...

Seems kind of fitting that I should be going there then...

Location Update

I accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine.
Here's my faculty page.