ERIC Number: EJ926025
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Publication Date: 2011-Jun
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Resisting Age Bias in Digital Literacy Research
Bowen, Lauren Marshall
College Composition and Communication, v62 n4 p586-607 Jun 2011
Through an eighty-one-year-old woman's literacy narrative, I argue that literacy researchers should pay greater attention to elder writers, readers, and learners. Particularly as notions of literacy shift in digital times, the perspective of a lifespan can reveal otherwise hidden complexities of literacy, including the motivational impact of affective histories and embodied practices over time. (Contains 8 notes.)
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computer Literacy, Age Discrimination, Social Bias, Influence of Technology, Generational Differences, Educational Attitudes, Lifelong Learning, Perspective Taking, Family Relationship, Photography, Computer Mediated Communication, Human Factors Engineering, Work Ethic
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