E-Learning
2006 Volume 3, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 9
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"MSN Was the next Big Thing after Beanie Babies": Children's Virtual Experiences as an Interface to Their Identities and Their Everyday Lives
Angela Thomas
In this article the author explores the seamlessness between children's online and offline worlds. For children, there is no dichotomy of online and offline, or virtual and real; the digital is so ... More
pp. 126-142
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"Getting the Reader on Side": Exploring Adolescent Online Political Discourse
Sally Humphrey
In recent years there has been growing awareness of the need to support primary and secondary students in developing competencies for active and participatory citizenship. Among the essential... More
pp. 143-157
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Cybergirls: Negotiating Social Identities on Cybersites
Barbara J. Guzzetti
Cyberspace has been regarded as an ideal site for adolescents' identity exploration since it is socially mediated. Liberal cyberfeminists argue that virtual spaces promote gender equality, fluidity... More
pp. 158-169
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Language, Culture, and Identity in Online Fanfiction
Rebecca W. Black
This article draws on constructs in second-language acquisition, literacy, cultural, and media studies as theoretical bases for examining how networked technologies and fan culture provide a young ... More
pp. 170-184
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The Aesthetic Production and Distribution of Image/Subjects among Online Youth
Kevin Leander & Amy Frank
In this article the authors consider how youth engage in social practices of identity through their online practices with images. Although they build on social practice perspectives, informed by... More
pp. 185-206
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Making Known Differently: Engaging Visual Modalities as Spaces to Author New Selves
Lalitha Vasudevan
In the increasingly digital and multimodal landscape of adolescents' literacies, it is particularly interesting to explore how young people are making and remaking their identities in online and... More
pp. 207-216
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Affinities and beyond! Developing Ways of Seeing in Online Spaces
Julia Davies
This article presents an insider view of an online community of adults involved in sharing digital photography through a host website, Flickr. It describes how reciprocal teaching and learning... More
pp. 217-234
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Identity, Social Networks and Online Communication
Guy Merchant
Arguments about whether or not the Internet is creating new people or simply helping us to see ourselves in new ways are threaded through the literature on digital culture. People make new... More
pp. 235-244
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Categories, Gender and Online Community
Jonathan Paul Marshall
This article presents a sketch for a theory of the rhetorics involved in categorisation and the creation of culture in online communities. Persuasion, or shaping perceptions of the world, is never ... More
pp. 245-262