Negotiating Place and Space Through Digital Literacies

<p>Digital literacy practices have often been celebrated as means of transcending the constraints of  the physical world through the production of new social spaces. At the same time literacy researchers and educators are coming to understand all the ways that place matters. This volume with contributors from across the globe considers how space/place identities and the role of digital literacies create opportunities for  individuals and communities to negotiate living being and learning together with and through digital media.</p><p> The chapters in this volume consider how social cultural historical and political literacies are brought to bear on a range of places that traverse the urban rural and suburban/exurban with emphasis placed on the ways digital technology is used to create identities and do work within social digital and material worlds. This includes agentive work in digital literacies from a variety of identities or subjectivities that disrupt metronormativity urban centrism (and other -isms) on the way to more authentic engagement with their communities and others. Featuring instances of research and practice across intersections of differences (including but not limited to race class gender sexuality ability and language) and places the contributions in this volume demonstrate the ways that digital literacies hold educative potential.</p><p> </p>