Mapping Multiple Literacies An Introduction to Deleuzian Literacy Studies [Paperback]

Mapping Multiple Literaciesbrings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European philosophy, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze. It frames the process of becoming literate as a fluid process involving multiple modes of presentation, and explains these processes in terms of making maps of our social lives and ways of doing things together.

For Deleuze, language acquisition is a social activity of which we are a part, but only one part amongst many others. Masny and Cole draw on Deleuze's thinking to expand the repertoires of literacy research and understanding. They outline how we can understand literacy as a social activity and map the ways in which becoming literate may take hold and transform communities. The chapters in this book weave together theory, data and practice to open up a creative new area of literacy studies and to provoke vigorous debate about the sociology of literacy.

Foreword by Claire Colebrook
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to Mapping Multiple Literacies: Deleuzian Literacy Studies
2. Cartographies of Multiple Literacies
3. Mapping Literacies with Affect
4. What is Reading? Cartographies of Reading
5. Cartographies of Talking Groups
6. Mapping Power and Literacies
7. Mapping the Literacy of Digital Futures
8. Conclusion to Mapping Multiple Literacies
References
Index

Diana Masny is Professor Emerita at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

David R. Cole is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.