Twinkle, twitter little stars: Tensions and flows in interpreting social constructions of the techno-toddler
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2012-09
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Digital Culture & Education
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In this article, the authors examine affordances and limitations of two interpretive frames—nexus of practice (Scollon, 2001) and the rhizome (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987)—for understanding the social construction of young children as precocious users of digital technologies. Building on recent work in literacy studies that challenges fixed understandings of space and context, particularly with respect to literacy practices using digital media, they argue that interpretive approaches to understanding young children’s participatory online literacy practices must seek to understand converging discourses and practices, but also divergence. These arguments are illustrated through nexus analysis and rhizoanalysis of a parent-produced YouTube video of a toddler who operates a computer to browse online nursery rhymes.
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digital media, discourses of childhood, early childhood literacy, literacy and identity, rhizoanalysis, nexus analysis
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Wohlwend, K. E., & Handsfield, L. (2012). Twinkle, twitter little stars: Tensions and flows in interpretingsocial constructions of the technotoddler. Digital Culture & Education, 4(2)
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