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(Re)placing School: Middle School Students' Countermobilities While Composing With iPods
Author(s) -
Ehret Christian,
Hollett Ty
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.224
Subject(s) - narrative , mobile device , digital literacy , meaning (existential) , digital media , media literacy , mobilities , pedagogy , mathematics education , literacy , psychology , sociology , multimedia , computer science , world wide web , art , social science , literature , psychotherapist
This article describes five middle school students' experiences as they moved with mobile devices to produce digital narratives in a twelve‐week digital media enrichment course designed and led by the authors. In the course, iP od Touches were often the exclusive tool for media composition. The authors, as teacher‐researchers, designed the course to investigate students' literacies and digital media production processes with mobile devices and apps. Analysis focuses on how students' movements with these devices affected their meaning‐making and their experiences of and connections to people, places and things in their school. Data presented in two vignettes describe how students developed counter‐mobilities essential to their development as mobile composers. The article develops a framework for considering the mobilities of bodies within socially constructed spaces for literacy learning, and contributes to the nascent body of research on youths' literacies with digital, mobile devices.