Bust.com and New Technologies of Literacy: A Study of a Maga /Zine and Its Website

"Magazines with website companion spaces provide an alternative form of reader identification and communication that leads to social processes that help girls to refine and construct their self-conceptions and literary capacities in relation to a diverse and immediate community. ""Postings"" on websites such as Bust.com lead to an improved awareness of language in relation to meaning and help web-based discussion group participants develop their language skills in a relational or contextual manner---a manner that is indicative of a strong sense of audience and a facility with multi-genre writing styles. In sum, this project develops a sense of how social forms of reading and writing that exist outside the boundaries of schools and which are facilitated by new communications technologies are important new spaces for the development of critical literacy."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Duncan, Barbara Jean

Contributors dc:contributor

• Burbules, Nicholas C.

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3198978

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/79866