I place multimodal and digital literacies under this umbrella. Marsh and Larson (2015) define overarching discourse as “the various culturally organized ways of acting and being in the world, or ‘forms of life’, that are enacted, reproduced, or transformed through language in use” (p. 8). This of course is big “D” discourse. I think multimodal and digital literacies belong under this umbrella because they essential examine the diverse ways for interacting and communicating with the world. Multimodality addresses this at its most essential level, but digital literacy in particular addresses new ways of communicating which have become very important to modern literacy research and
I place multimodal and digital literacies under this umbrella. Marsh and Larson (2015) define overarching discourse as “the various culturally organized ways of acting and being in the world, or ‘forms of life’, that are enacted, reproduced, or transformed through language in use” (p. 8). This of course is big “D” discourse. I think multimodal and digital literacies belong under this umbrella because they essential examine the diverse ways for interacting and communicating with the world. Multimodality addresses this at its most essential level, but digital literacy in particular addresses new ways of communicating which have become very important to modern literacy research and