11Digital literacies in a wireless world
The past two decades have seen a significant shift in what counts as literacies research and where such literacies are found, enacted, engaged. Primarily rising as a field alongside mainstream use of the Internet (Lankshear & Knobel, 2008), digital literacy has come to signal a widespread set of interdisciplinary, social, scholarly, and business-related practices. First providing some foundational grounding, this chapter presents several guidelines for how the field of digital literacy is changing. Throughout this chapter, I define the field of literacy research as the broader study of how different communities develop, enact, and produce through the varied literacies practices they engage ...
