Draft Chapter 5

The Space of Multimodal Literacy Practices

Chapter summary

Images are ‘everywhere'. They permeate our academic work, everyday lives, conversations … and dreams. They are inextricably interwoven with our personal identities, narratives, lifestyles, cultures and societies, as well as with definitions of history, space and truth

Pink, 2001, p. 17

Play was another layer of our (counter)story to pedagogized Discourses on literacies in the lives of African American boys, and as central to our space this layer raised significant challenges to the commonly held beliefs about literacy learning, and in particular the engagement of technologies in schools. As generative of our collective epistemology through (counter)stories and recursively situated in the discursive possibilities of our third space, play – playing and playfulness – characterized our social practices that gave meaning to the literacies we engaged as a group. In this chapter I bring to my analysis of play in our space the third lens of the spatial hybridity framework: subjectivity hybridity. Specifically, I explore how the practices of authoring multiple selves were present in and helped to shape the layer of play of our third space. I discuss the ways in which play was the social practice in which our multimodal literacies were embedded; the lens of subjectivity hybridity is brought to bear in this context as I look at the ways we authored multiple selves in this third space, already described to be geographically and discursively hybrid.

 


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