Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom (Language and Literacy Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807754021 ISBN 13: 9780807754023

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2013

Synopsis

Building on the groundbreaking research of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning initiative, this book crosses the divide between digital literacies and traditional print culture to engage a generation of students who can read with a book in one hand and a mouse in the other. Reading in a Participatory Culture tells the story of an innovative experiment that brought together playwright and director Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Melville scholar Wyn Kelley, and new media scholar Henry Jenkins to develop an exciting new curriculum to reshape the middle and high school English language arts classroom. This book offers highlights from the resources developed for teaching Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and outlines the basic principles of design, implementation, and assessment that can be applied to any text.

About this title

About the Author

Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of communications, journalism, cinematic arts, and education at the University of Southern California, USA.

Wyn Kelley is senior lecturer in literature and comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807754021
• ISBN 13: 9780807754023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Jenkins Henry, Kelley Wyn