Hoechsmann, Michael and Bronwen E. Low. Reading Youth Writing: “New” Literacies, Cultural Studies and Education. NY: Peter Lang, 2008.
Summary: instead of wondering where the world has gone and lamenting the state of today’s youth, we should consider youth in actuality rather than how they are represented in the media. Taking a cultural studies approach, the authors explore the new literacies being used by worldwide youth today, and how to incorporate these new literacies into the classroom. Many of the chapters use a theoretical bent to get to practical approaches, for example, “Says Who? Video, Voice and Youth Self-Representation” and “Jamming the Signal: Rap Music and the Poetics of Technology.”
