By embracing a rapidly changing digital world the so-called millennial adolescent is proving
quite adept at breaking down age-old distinctions among disciplines between high- and low-brow
media culture and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a
Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youth's negotiated
approaches to making meaning within a broad array of self-defined literacy practices. Organized
around a series of case studies this book blends theories of an attention economy
generational differences communication technologies and neoliberal enactive texts with actual
accounts of adolescents' use of instant messaging shape-shifting portfolios critical inquiry
and media production.
