Innovations and challenges in digital literacies: literacies of repair

Jones, R. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-727X (2025) Innovations and challenges in digital literacies: literacies of repair. Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp232. ISBN 9780367348588 doi: 10.4324/9780429328480

Abstract/Summary

Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies questions whether the current theoretical frameworks and pedagogical practices around digital literacies are sufficient to confront the technological, social, and political crises around digital media that we are experiencing today. Drawing on extensive research in digital literacies, discourse analysis, and sociotechnical systems, Jones reimagines digital literacies not simply as skills for making meaning and navigating information but as a more holistic project of figuring out how to ‘fix’ what is ‘broken’ about the internet and our broader societies. The book focuses on seven key ‘sites of repair’—action, attention, affect, affinity, visibility, truth, and humanity—each site offering insights into how agency, emotions, relationships, knowledge, and ‘intelligence’ emerge through our entanglements with digital technologies. The text aims to provoke debate about how we define digital literacies in an age of political polarisation and rapid technological change. It provides powerful tools for teaching, learning, and living more ethically with digital media. With this book, Jones invites readers to see themselves not just as users of digital technology, but as fixers of broken systems—and caretakers of our increasingly fragile world. This approach provides a framework for educators, students, and researchers to collaboratively develop practical strategies to challenge the logics of technological and social systems, cultivating new literacies for an age of online misinformation, algorithmic governance, and generative AI.

Additional Information	Open Access for this book was funded by the University of Reading. The book is available under a CC BY NC ND licence - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Item Type	Book
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/124803
Identification Number/DOI	10.4324/9780429328480
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics
Additional Information	Open Access for this book was funded by the University of Reading. The book is available under a CC BY NC ND licence - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Publisher	Routledge
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