Colin Lankshear

Mount Saint Vincent University · Faculty of Education

This article describes a hands on, learning by doing, teams-based approach for introducing Masters level students to doing empirical qualitative research within a hybrid course that combined 3 intensive Saturday workshops with online writing at distance in Google Docs over a 12 week period. Participants acquired some qualitative research basics by...

This is the submitted version of a piece on the Australian philosopher of education, Kevin Harris, author of Education and Knowledge (1979), showing its prescient critique of school education, especially relevant to a time, as now, of Neo-Liberal dominance in the UK as well as elsewhere. The piece is part of a series of tributes to Kevin Harris, pu...

En aquest article es presenten dos casos d'alguns efectes habilitants dels dispositius digitals en la vida quotidiana d'una dona d'edat confinada a casa en una ciutat dels Estats Units i d'una família de camperols a Mèxic. This article presents two cases of some enabling effects of digital devices in the ordinary everyday lives of a housebound age...

This is the pre publication English language version of the Catalan language publication "Els efectes possibilitadors de la tecnologia en la vida diària: dos casosd’ús quotidià de dispositius digitals". It presents two short cases of some enabling effects of digital devices in the everyday lives of a housebound aged woman in is city in the United...

This is the introductory chapter to an edited collection punished in April 2020 by Myers Education Press

Forthcoming edited collection that provides detailed "how-to" guides to a range of data analysis approaches used in Literacy Studies research, together with their supporting theories, and accounts of how the researchers interpret their results of data analysis.

A coletânea reúne uma série de textos inéditos e originais, associados a republicações de artigos que ajudaram a fundar o campo dos estudos sobre memes. A obra reflete a diversidade de abordagens e interesses que atravessam o desenvolvimento recente do campo. É, portanto, um livro voltado àqueles que desejam explorar o universo da pesquisa sobre me...

Abstract: This article maps some key patterns associated with how internet memes are conceived and how online meme practices have evolved and morphed during the period from 2000 to the present. We document the rise of internet memes during their early years as a broadly communitarian cultural engagement, mostly characterized by goodwill, humor, and...

An encyclopedia entry subsequently published in the Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v04i04/43-57 Citation: Lankshear, Colin, and Michele Knobel. 2019. "Memes, Macros, Meaning, and Menace: Some Trends in Internet Memes." The Journal of Communication and Media Studies 4 (4): 43-57. doi:10.18848/2470-9247/CGP/v04i04/43-57. This article maps some key patterns associated with how internet m...

This article addresses the challenge and debate which is currently evident about the nature of learning in workplaces. Relevant research literature seems to place a heavy emphasis on learning in the workplace as being based on methodological aspects or personal attributes of the learners. The study reported here focuses on the importance of the lea...

Voktor Chagas asked us for permission to reprint our memes chapter from DIY Media (Knobel & Lankshear, 2007) and we took it as an opportunity to update the text and comment on memes in current times.

Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (2018). Education and “new literacies” in the middle years. Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 26 (2): 7-16.

Workplace democracy. Empowerment. Team leaders. Knowledge workers. This is the language of the new work order promoted by todays management, which promises more meaningful and satisfying work, greater respect for diversity, and more democratic distribution of knowledge.But Gee, Hull, and Lankshear find startling contradictions in this brave new wor...

Los autores conciben a la investigación como una práctica discursiva que tiene que ser sistemática y metódica en su enfoque y procedimientos. Bajo esa perspectiva analizan los presupuestos que deberán tomarse en cuenta en la recolección de datos durante la investigación. Contiene: Problemas, interrogaciones y propósitos; El análisis de los datos or...

«Digital literacy» is increasingly being identified as a formal educational goal. While mainstream definitions vary in detail, the scope and meaning of digital literacy are rarely seen as problematic. This paper argues that typical mainstream accounts of digital literacy are seriously flawed. Rather than conceiving digital literacy as some unitary...

New literacies research offers valuable insights into young people's everyday literacy practices. Teachers can use the kinds of research outcomes reported here to build on new literacies in appropriate ways for academic purposes.

Front Cover and Introduction to an edited collection

La irrupción meteórica de las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación y en especial de Internet, su más notorio vástago, han transformado en apenas treinta años las sociedades contemporáneas con una radicalidad, efectiva y potencial, que no tiene precedentes en la historia de las relaciones entre las innovaciones tecnológicas y la evoluc...

[Extract] References to "new literacies" have become increasingly common as use of digital technologies has grown within everyday routines, reflecting a growing sense that "literacy" can no longer be presumed to refer simply to interactions with conventional texts. New Literacies as a General Concept "New literacies" mostly functions as an umbrel...

It is too easy to make light of ‘new literacies’ by saying things like: “Well, there are always newer ones coming along”. Such remarks suggest new literacies have a similar kind of life trajectory to an automobile: new in 2009, semi-new in 2010, and old hat by 2011. Against this kind of “that’s so yesterday” perspective, we suggest in this article...

Pensar en las “nuevas alfabetizaciones” con afirmaciones del tipo “seguro que algo más nuevo está al caer” es un recurso fácil, que asimila la trayectoria de las nuevas alfabetizaciones a la de un coche: nuevo en 2009, seminuevo en 2010 y un usado en 2011. Frente a esta perspectiva de “eso ya pasó de moda”, en este artículo proponemos abordar las “...

Cover and Introduction to edited collection

This article discusses what seem to us to be some of the key features of Chris Searle’s approach to language and literacy education within school classroom settings in England, as portrayed in his own writings and reflected in work done by his students and published in numerous compilations from Stepney Words (1971) to School of the World (1994). W...

The Internet is becoming an interactive and collaborative experience. Popular social software used to interact with the Internet includes blogs and microblogs for keeping track of things that interest you or for letting others know what you're up to (www.blogger.com, www.livejournal.com, twitter.com) and sites like Facebook for bringing together on...

This article reports findings of a national online survey of Australian women employed in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-related careers. The Women in ICT Industry Survey was the culminating stage of a larger Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project investigating factors associated with low and declining female participatio...

Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends. In this sense, remix is as old as human cultures, and human cultures are themselves products of remixing. Since the late 1980s, however—originating with highly contrived forms of music remix by dancehall DJs—remix practices have been greatly am...

Purpose – This paper seeks to identify aspects of work environment, culture or expectations that contributed to women's comfort or discomfort within the information and communication technology (ICT) industry. Design/methodology/approach – The study is empirical in nature and addresses the perspectives of 178 professional women currently working w...

Purpose – This paper seeks to identify aspects of work environment, culture or expectations that contributed to women's comfort or discomfort within the information and communication technology (ICT) industry. Design/methodology/approach – The study is empirical in nature and addresses the perspectives of 178 professional women currently working wi...

The current paper details results from the Girls and ICT survey phase of a three year study investigating factors associated with low participation rates by females in education pathways leading to professional level information and communications technology (ICT) professions. The study is funded through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Link...

This paper advocates an orientation toward new literacies research that privileges "insider" perspectives and current developments within social spaces of the internet. It advances a conceptual definition of new literacies based on a "practice"-oriented account of "literacies" and three key distinctions • A distinction between two mindsets that com...

Cover plus Introduction to an edited collection

This article introduces some concepts for thinking about issues and practices associated with ‘technologising literacy education’ under current and foreseeable conditions of schooling. It provides and analyses ‘snapshots’ of classroom activities involving the use of new technologies in literacy education within three sites, and describes four princ...

This article focuses on some ideas from social and political philosophy concerning the ideal of freedom that may be useful for thinking about issues associated with the rise of network societies. The tendency for ‘freedom’ to mean very different things to different people has carried over to the context of thinking about issues associated with new...

Major revision of New Literacies: Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning (2003)

The ICT profession in most Western countries is predominantly male (Millar & Jagger 2001). The Overview of the Australian ICT Industry reported that women comprised only 15% of ICT specialists within Australia in 2005 (DCITA 2005). Senator Coonan, Australia’s Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, recently stated that wom...

This paper explores social practices of propagating 'memes' (pronounced, 'meems') as a dimension of cultural production and transmission within internet environments. Memes are contagious patterns of cultural information that are passed from mind to mind and that directly shape and generate key actions and mindsets of a social group. Memes include...

The first two issues of E-Learning featured monographs by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, which they generously made available for publication. Both of these works, Designs for Learning and Text-Made Text, are artifacts grounded in a larger shared project to which the two authors have been committed throughout more than two decades of sustained inten...

I consider myself incredibly privileged; my work has allowed me to develop far more questions than answers. This, of course, is a result of what some might call the First Principle of Reading Research: The more we study something, the more we realize how little we understand. Today, I want to share some of my questions with you and a few of the pos...

This paper reports preliminary work in an ARC Linkage Project involving collaboration among James Cook University, Education Queensland, and Technology One (a Queensland based company). The project aims to identify and interpret factors associated with low female participation rates in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professional le...

Introduction This paper is organized in four sections. The first section surveys typical examples of what we see as the prevailing approach to understanding 'digital literacy' – which we identify with what we call an 'It' perspective on digital literacy. We consider a range of 'conceptual definitions' and 'standardised operationalisations' of digit...

This article identifies a range of changes associated with intensified digitization of daily life that require us to rethink what it means for people to know things and what kinds of things it may be most important to know. In short, we need digital epistemologies. The argument focuses on four key dimensions of change that have epistemological sign...

There is substantial literature on new work practices and the associated skills required of workers in the 'new capitalism' but very few consider workers’ perspectives on the advocacies. The study reported here involved 39 participants aged 40 plus who were interviewed to obtain data in relation to their conceptions of work and learning at work. Th...

Against the background of Michael Kamil and Sam Intrator’s landmark reviews of research about new technologies and literacy development, this article maps recent research concerned specifically with the 0–8 years age group. Drawing on databases of research conducted in North America, Britain and Australasia, it affirms that the early childhood dime...

This article is based on aproject aimed at generating practicalsuggestions based on research findings abouthow new technologies might be used to enhanceL1 literacy attainment in disadvantagedsettings. The project involved designing,implementing and researching an innovativeapproach to curriculum and pedagogy using newdigital technologies in languag...

Este artículo describe la importancia potencial de la investigación docente para el estatus de los profesores como profesionales, dentro de con­textos donde un ideal democrático de la educación es atacado por los estándares técnicos y un currículo estandarizado. Describe dos ¿conceptos fundacionales¿ de investigación docente de los años setenta. Lo...

This article presents a critical assessment from the standpoint of early childhood literacy of Britain’s ambitious and costly on-line learning resource, the National Grid for Learning. It provides an overview of the aims, scope and administration of the Grid, together with typical examples of content available for users in the early childhood age r...

Throughout the 1990s, successive Australian governments funded an extensive program of research projects focused on children’s literacy. The program began as a key initiative within the Australian Language and Literacy Policy that was framed at the end of the 1980s and legislated in 1991.This policy was based on recognition of the fact that the con...

As we enter the twenty-first century, the familiar spaces of formal education are increasingly being invaded and transformed by new information and communication technologies (ICTs). The formerly well-delimited social spaces of classrooms and schools are rapidly being incorporated into the cyber spaces associated with computer programs, word proces...

Britain’s National Grid for Learning (hereafter, “the Grid”) began as a government policy initiative in 1996 and “opened for business” in late 1999. Officially described as “a Government initiative to help learners and educators in the U.K. to benefit from information and communications technology” (BECTA 2001a, p. 1), the Grid is a “vital part of...

In this chapter, we focus on the introduction of computers into high school classrooms in Ontario, Canada. Many studies of computer introduction focus on issues of technical implementation: issues of how people learn the techniques and, indeed, the “language” of computers. This concentration reflects a certain definition of the problems surrounding...