Literacies Across Media

<p>The contemporary young reader learns from a very early age to read and interpret through a broad range of media. <em>Literacies Across Media</em> explores how a group of boys and girls aged from ten to fourteen make sense of narratives in a variety of formats including print electronic book video DVD computer game and CD-ROM. This book records these young people over a period of eighteen months as they read view and play different texts demonstrating variations and consistencies of interpretative behaviour across different media.<br><br>Margaret Mackey analyses how the activities of reading viewing and playing intertwine and affect each other's development. Her in-depth research shows young readers developing strategies for interpreting narratives through encounters with a diverse range of texts and media. The study breaks new ground in its illustration and exploration of the impact of cross-media fertilisation on how young readers come to an understanding of how to make sense of stories. </p><p><em>Literacies Across Media</em> offers both a vivid account of a group of young readers coming to terms with texts and a radical perspective on the growth of a generation of young readers. It is thought-provoking fascinating and highly informative reading not only for theoreticians interested in the reading process but also teachers librarians parents and anybody involved with young people and their texts.</p>