Extreme Literacies and Contemporary Readers |
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| Authors: | Margaret Mackey |
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| Institution: | Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Literate behaviours are changing with new technological and commercial reworkings of popular fictions. Today's young people are acquiring new skills and strategies to deal with the enormous onslaught of secondary texts associated with many major fictions. This article discusses such developments in the context of three stories: Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and The Simpsons. It investigates the potential for new approaches to literacy as displayed by particular young readers. |
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| Keywords: | Commercialism literacy technology |
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