Community-Based Multiliteracies and Digital Media Projects

Contents: Lalitha Vasudevan: The Complicated Work of «Making the Familiar Strange» in Community-Based Literacies Research and Practice - Heather M. Pleasants/Dana E. Salter: Writing Oneself into the Story - Amy Hill: Digital Storytelling and the Politics of Doing Good: Exploring the Ethics of Bringing Personal Narratives into Public Spheres - Ed Lee/Liz Miller: Entry Point: Participatory Media-Making with Queer and Trans Refugees: Social Locations, Agendas and Thinking Structurally - Pip Hardy/Tony Sumner: Our Stories, Ourselves: Exploring Identities, Sharing Experiences and Building Relationships through Patient Voices - Diana J. Nucera/Jeanette Lee: I Transform Myself, I Transform the World Around Me - Jason Edward Lewis/Skawennati Fragnito: You Want to Do What with Doda's Stories? Building a Community for the Skins Workshops on Aboriginal Storytelling in Digital Media - Jesikah Maria Ross: Adventures in Community Media: Experiments, Findings, and Strategies for Change - Rob Simon/Jason Brennan/Sandro Bresba/Sara DeAngelis/Will Edwards/Helmi Jung/Anna Pisecny: The Teaching to Learn Project: Investigating Literacy through Intergenerational Inquiry - Josh Schachter/Julie Kasper: Finding Voice: Building Literacies and Communities Inside and Outside the Classroom - Ouida Washington/Derek Koen: Visions Beyond the Bricks: Reflections on Engaging Communities to Support Black Male Youth - Kofi Larweh/Jonathan Langdon: Seeing the Synergy in the Signals: Reflections on Weaving Projects into Social Movement Mobilizing through Community Radio.

Heather M. Pleasants received her PhD in educational psychology with a specialization in language, literacy, and learning from Michigan State University. She is a past Spencer Dissertation Fellow and is a writer, ethnographer, and the Director for Community Education at the University of Alabama.
Dana E. Salter is completing her PhD in curriculum and instruction from McGill University and is the Community Outreach Specialist for the Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University.

«What I so appreciate about this important volume is that the authors take up as central the kinds of conversations that too often only happen off the record. Fearlessly, they explore the messiness of research on digital media literacies. They ask what to do when things don't go as planned, when deeply personal stories go public, when intentions bump up against realities within the politics of 'doing good.' We all need to think deeply about these issues together, and to speak of them out loud and on the record. We need methods to embed reflection and critical analysis of process into multiliteracies research, which is precisely the mandate this collection delivers on, with clarity and courage.» (Dr. Elisabeth Soep, Senior Producer and Research Director, Youth Radio)
«By playing at the intersection of the digital literacy and community context, the editors and their co-authors move beyond traditional conversations about the pedagogical and programmatic mechanics of utilizing digital media to the criti-cal examination of digital literacies in specific contexts and the associated chal-lenges that accompany this work. As a STEAM educator and community advocate, I believe that through their work, Heather M. Pleasants and Dana E. Salter have created an invaluable space to interrogate some of the key questions facing those hoping to empower educators and students to utilize digital media to change and improve their world.» (Dr. Brian Williams, Director, Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence, and Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education, Georgia State University)
«This is a beautifully conceptualized collection. The editors have invited experienced, self-reflective, community-based practitioners to 'write themselves into the story' of their work and the result is a nuanced conversation about the intricacies, ambiguities, challenges, and the inspiration of collaborating across boundaries to create media that matter. The insights shared and