College Composition and Communication Jun 2011

Resisting Age Bias in Digital Literacy Research

Lauren Marshall Bowen

Abstract

Through an eighty-one-year-old woman’s literacy narrative, I argue that literacy researchers should pay greater attention to elder writers, readers, and learners. Particularly asnotions of literacy shift in digital times, the perspective of a lifespan can reveal otherwise hidden complexities of literacy, including the motivational impact of affective histories and embodied practices over time.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2011-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201115872
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digital rhetoric literacy studies
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