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Blurring Boundaries: Two Groups of Girls Collaborate on a Wiki
Author(s) -
Schillinger Trace
Publication year - 2011
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 - 10.1598/jaal.54.6.2
Subject(s) - reading (process) , face (sociological concept) , the internet , psychology , state (computer science) , pedagogy , mathematics education , sociology , computer science , world wide web , political science , social science , law , algorithm
In 2006, a secondary English and feminist studies teacher created a course and designed a study around a reading exchange for eighth‐grade girls from two vastly different communities. Girls from a school in a northeastern state read young adult novels and wrote about their reading and related topics with girls from Washington, DC on a wikispace created for their collaborations. The participants wrote reading responses, posted videos, and deliberated over questions related to their reading and topics related to the challenges of growing up as girls. In addition, they co‐authored a girls' zine for a wider audience. In May, 2006, the girls met face‐to‐face to continue their work together. This study was designed to address the question: What happens when girls from different locations and backgrounds read and write together, and how might the internet facilitate this exchange? This article describes a part of that exchange.