COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 6.1 (Fall, 2011) | The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work that contributes to the field's emerging methodologies and research agendas. CONTENTS: ARTICLES:
"Introduction: Digital Media and Community Literacy" by Melody Bowdon and Russell Carpenter | "Mapping Complex Terrains: Bridging Social Media and Community Literacies" by David Dadurka and Stacey Pigg | "Identification as Civic Literacy in Digital Museum Projects: A Case Study of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum" by Brooke Hessler | "Researching the "Un-Digital" Amish Community: Methodological and Ethical Reconsiderations for Human Subjects Research" by Tabetha Adkins | "'That's Not Writing': Exploring the Intersection of Digital Writing, Community Literacy and Social Justice" by Kristen Hawley Turner and Troy Hicks | "Inquiring Communally, Acting Collectively: The Community Literacy of the Academy Women eMentor Portal and Facebook Group" by D. Alexis Hart | BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: "Virtual Volunteerism: Review of LibriVox and VolunteerMatch" reviewed by Ashley J. Holmes | "Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age" reviewed by Douglas Walls.
