...Sujata Patel; Smriti Singh Purpose This paper aims to explore how contemporary Indian picturebooks represent climate-induced migration and children’s experiences of belonging through multimodal storytelling. Focusing on A Butterfly Smile (2017) by Mathangi Subramanian and Lavanya Naidu...

... game literacies Multimodal texts Multimodality Elementary education Digital literacies Technology and literacy In today’s digital landscape, children’s literacy practices extend beyond traditional print texts to encompass a variety of multimodal experiences, with video games representing...

...Jon M. Wargo; Cassie J. Brownell; Kathleen Schenkel Purpose This study aims to examine how children, as part of the Coastal Climate Kids Collective, used restorying to articulate ecological precarity and to voice climate activism through multimodal compositions. Design/methodology/approach...

... descriptive qualitative methodologies to conduct a thematic analysis of meeting transcripts, written participant reflections and researcher memos. Analysis was grounded in theories of reader response, critical fat studies and multimodality. Findings Analyses indicated many readers reject textual clues...

... an essentialising of multiliteracies to the skills of viewing and representing with multimodal texts, as well as a sense of uncertainty amongst the teachers towards the teaching of multiliteracies. In terms of practices, the authors observed an attempt to connect with the students’ life-worlds through the use...

... with 5 early adolescent participants. The research design included a multimodal analytic analysis of participant artifacts and inductive analysis of semi-structured interviews and transcription frames. Findings Participants embedded meaning to achieve four primary purposes, namely, to guide visitors...

..., psychological, intellectual, and physical traumas. Despite relentless attacks of anti-Blackness, Black youth fight valiantly through a range of creative outlets, including multimodal compositions, that enable them to move beyond negative stereotypes, maintain their creativity, and manifest the present...

...Esther O. Ohito Purpose This study aims to investigate multimodal composition as an exercise or tool for teaching students theory building. To illustrate, an analysis of artifacts comprising a student’s multimodal composition, which was created in response to a multipart literacy assignment...

... them. Talia Hurwich can be contacted at: talia.hurwich@gmail.com 17 08 2020 22 11 2020 14 01 2021 14 01 2021 Multimodality New literacies Graphic novels Feminism and religion Graphic novel adaptations Jewish education Comics and graphic novels...

...Courtney Shimek Purpose Our world had always been multimodal, but studying how young children enact and embody literacy practices, especially reading, has often been overlooked. The purpose of this study was to examine how young children respond to nonfiction picturebooks in multimodal ways...

...Joohoon Kang Purpose This paper aims to investigate adolescent English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ digitally mediated multimodal compositions across different genres of writing. Design/methodology/approach Three Korean high school students participated in the study and created...

...) and two former students (currently research assistants and university students) take up a youth studies framework to collaboratively resee multimodal artifacts from a tenth-grade course in qualitative research. Findings Findings illustrate the power of finding allies in peers and educators...

...Kate T. Anderson; Dani Kachorsky Purpose This article presents an analysis of empirical literature on classroom assessment of students’ multimodal compositions to characterize the field and make recommendations for teachers and researchers. Design/methodology/approach An interpretive synthesis...

...Jon M. Wargo Purpose Plugging into the multimodal aesthetics of youth lifestreaming, this article examines how three lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) youths use digital media production as an activist practice toward cultural justice work. Focusing on the queer rhetorical...

...Candance Doerr-Stevens Purpose This study/paper aims to explore civic participation within multimodal expression. With the rise of content produced and circulated within participatory cultures online, there has been much attention raised regarding questions of audience and attention...

... of a reader engaging with and absorbing a coherent exposition of a body of knowledge, authoritatively presented” (p. 7). Critical literacy Multimodality Literacy and identity Academic “literacy” Digital natives Orality The Gutenberg Parenthesis (Pettitt, 2012 ; Sauerberg, 2009a) proposes...