Media Practices and literacies
This double theme or composite theme is one of the major insights of my dissertation. I would like to bring together the "practice turn" in social sciences, especially in relation to media practices, and the sociocultural understanding of literacy, in particular the new literacies. Although I see clear intersection of both approaches, they have not been yet integrated. Perhaps it is not even necessary to expend so much effort mixing the two approaches. Maybe, it is enough to review the two paradigms and highlight points in common, their convergence. At the end, what I would like to do is to be able to study some of the media practices and literacies in action, happening in the everyday life.
One way to start doing so is by organizing here the two approaches:
