Kral Inge - Talk Text And Technology Literacy And Social Practice In A Remote Indigenous Community - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Talk Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts adapts and incorporates new innovations and technologies into social practice and cultural processes is illuminated - from first mission contact and the introduction of literacy in the 1930s to youth media practices today. This book examines social cultural and linguistic practices and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.
Title: Talk Text And Technology Literacy And Social Practice In A Remote Indigenous Community
Author(s): Kral Inge
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781847697585
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 7/26/2012
Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Category: Anthropology