Young Adult Literature and the Digital World

This book considers the practical intersection between digital media and young adult texts. In these books, teachers and teacher educators offer practical examples for engaging students with crafting critical responses to young adult literature through digital spaces. It examines how teachers can use these spaces to help students encounter, evaluate, and engage in the world in which they live. Young adult literature offers a vehicle through which students can discuss and explore the world in a more removed manner, while digital media offers a paradigm for helping students craft multimodal responses that extend beyond the traditional literary essay. This intersection asks teachers to consider how they are asking students to interact with the texts they read. It asks them to invite students to enter and contribute to broader conversations through the production of their own texts. This book illustrates pedagogical principles in practice, showing what is possible in literature study in classrooms.

Jennifer S. Dail, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English Education at Kennesaw State University where she works with graduate students in secondary English Education and directs the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project. Her primary focus is on digital media and technology in English language arts classrooms, and she has a deep love of young adult literature. Shelbie Witte, Ph.D., is the Chuck and Kim Watson Chair in Education and Associate Professor of Adolescent Literacy and English Education at Oklahoma State University, where she works with preservice English Language Arts teachers. She is the director of the Initiative for 21st Century Literacies Research and the Oklahoma State University Writing Project. Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http://www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review and a current editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature.

Foreword Leslie Rush Introduction: Critical Engagements with Literature: Guiding Youth as They Read, Compose, and Participate in the World Shelbie Witte and Jennifer S. Dail Part I: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Encounter the World Chapter 1- Emojis, #Hashtags, and Texting Oh My!: Remixing Shakespeare in the ELA Classroom Michelle M. Falter and Crystal L. Beach Chapter 2- Transmedia Stories in the English Classroom Rikki Roccanti Overstreet Chapter 3- Remixing Reader Response with Digital, Mobile, and Multimodal Literacies Lesley Roessing and Julie Warner Part II: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Evaluate the World Chapter 4- We Too are Connecticut: Digital Ubuntu with Matt de la Pena's We Were Here Bryan Ripley Crandall, Kate Bedard, Paula Fortuna, Kim Herzog, Shaun Mitchell, Jennifer von Wahlde, and Megan Zabilansky Chapter 5- Becoming a Global and Digital Citizen through the Power of Young Adult Literature Kathryn Bailey Part III: Using Young Adult Literature and Digital Spaces to Engage in the World Chapter 6- Participating in Literacy and the Outside World: Consuming, Composing, and Sharing Graphic Narratives Mike P. Cook and Brandon L. Sams Chapter 7- Remixing Literacy for Justice and Hope Breanne Huston Chapter 8- #iread #iwrite #iteach: Modeling the Use of Technology, Participatory Culture, and Critical Inquiry with YA Literature in the ELA Classroom Steffany Comfort Maher About the Editors About the Contributors