Talk, Text and Technology (Paperback)

Inge Kral

ISBN 10: 1847697585 / ISBN 13: 9781847697585

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol, 2012

About this Item

Paperback. 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. This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Talk, Text and Technology (Paperback)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847697585
• ISBN 13: 9781847697585
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Inge Kral is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University. Her work as an educator and researcher in Indigenous Australia for nearly three decades has ranged across literacy, applied linguistics, anthropology and new media.