Becoming Writers Intra-activity with Digital Bookmaking

Abstract

This manuscript draws on data from a collaborative action research project focused on inclusive literacy practices and children’s multimodal meaning making in three primary classrooms. I employ posthumanist conceptual tools of intra-activity and enacted agency to explore how digital technologies and other materials are intertwined in the processes by which young children become writers through digital bookmaking. I illustrate how a posthumanist perspective on literacies enables new understandings and expands possibilities for writing in a digital age. I demonstrate how intra-actions with digital tools and materials create more equitable learning spaces, making new realities possible for enacting knowing/being/doing literacies.

Keywords:

• literacies,
• writer identities,
• multimodal meaning making,
• digital bookmaking,
• posthumanism