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Allan Scott Auditorium, ground floor, Hawke Building, City West campus, University of South Australia
Professor Victoria Carrington
Lecture Overview What is the link between literacy, identity and culture? In this lecture, Victoria Carrington presents a range of texts demonstrating the shift towards what Henry Jenkins called a `participatory culture'. It's a culture reflected by the out-of-school practices of many young people, using technologies like mobile phones to interact with one another through unique styles of social text. As they embrace these new forms of communication, it not only has obvious implications for the way they construct their own identity; it also sets a new context within which educators must now think about teaching literacy.
Presenter: Professor Victoria Carrington
Victoria is Research SA Chair and Professor in the Hawke Research Institute's Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures. Current research interests include new literacies and literate practice, digital technologies, and youth and participatory cultures. Before joining UniSA in 2007, she was an Associate Dean at the University of Plymouth, a Unit of Assessment Coordinator for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and worked with universities in Queensland and Tasmania. Victoria writes extensively, is on the editorial boards of a range of journals and is an editor of the international journal, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
