Melissa Pearson

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Melissa Pearson's work travels primarily in Digital & Multimodal (60% of indexed citations) · 5 total indexed citations from 3 clusters.

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  • Digital & Multimodal — 3
  • Community Literacy — 1
  • Composition & Writing Studies — 1

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  1. Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology
    Abstract

    In this article, we discuss the literacy narratives of coauthors Melissa Pearson and Brittney Moraski, who came to computers almost a generation apart. Our goal is to demonstrate the importance of situating literacies of technology—and literacies more generally—within specific cultural, material, educational, and familial contexts that influence, and are influenced by, their acquisition and development.

    doi:10.58680/ccc20042778