Virtual Sites as Learning Spaces : Critical Issues on Languaging Research in Changing Eduscapes (1st ed. 2019. 2019. xxxvi, 412 S. XXXVI, 412 p. 48 illus. 210 mm)

§16§§This volume fills a gap in the literature between the domains of Communication Studies and Educational Sciences across physical-virtual spaces as they intersect in the 21st century. The chapters focus on "languaging" - communicative practices in the making - and its intersection with analogue and virtual learning spaces, bringing together studies that highlight the constant movement between analogue-virtual dimensions that continuously re-shape participants' identity positionings. Languaging is understood as the deployment of one or more than one language variety, modality, embodiment, etc in human meaning-making across spaces. Languaging activities are explored through a multitude of literary artefacts, genres, media, and modes produced in and across sites. The authors go beyond "best practice" approaches and instead present "how-to-explore" communicative practices for researchers, learners and teachers. This book will be of interest to readers situated in the areas of litera §16§cy, literature, bi/multilingualism, multimodality, linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, and related fields. §§ §§Chapters 2, 5, 8 and 12 are open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. §§ §04§§Section 1: Institutional Framing and Policies.- Chapter 1: On Epistemological Issues in Technologically Infused Spaces: Notes on Virtual Sites for Learning (Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Giulia Messina Dahlberg).- Chapter 2: Inscriptions and Digitalization Initiatives Across Time in the Nation-Sate of Sweden: the Relevance of Shifts and Continuities in Policy Accounts for Teachers' Work (Lars Almén and Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta).- Chapter 3: Authenticity of Language Practices in Virtual Learning Sites (Jonathan White).- Section 2: Genre Framings.- Chapter 4: Wikipedia's Falling Stars: Arguments for Demotion When Articles Lose Their Status as Featured Articles (Maria Mattus).- Chapter 5: The Story Event "The Beauty and the Beast" in Second Life: Literature Studies and the (Non-)Adoption of Virtual Worlds (Ylva Lindberg).- Chapter 6: Text Universe- a Pedagogical Strategy to Teach Literary Classics (Anette Svensson and Stefan Lundström).- Chapter 7: Wikipedia as a Virtual Learning Site and §04§a Multilingual Languaging Site (Sverker Johansson and Ylva Lindberg).- Section 3: Identity and Learning Framings.- Chapter 8: "Oh it was a woman! Had I known I would have reacted otherwise!" Developing Digital Methods to Switch Identity-Related Properties in Order to Reveal Linguistic Stereotyping (Mattias Lindvall-Östling, Mats Deutschmann and Anders Steinvall).- Chapter 9: "Going on trial": Teachers' Team Performance in Social Media Groups When Facing Problematic Work-Related Issues (Louise Peterson, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Thomas Hillman, Mona Lundin and Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt).- Chapter 10: The Conceptualization of Time, Space and the Body in Virtual Sites and the Impact on Language Learner Identities (Regine Hampel).- Chapter 11: Self-Directed Language Learning: a Semiotic Analysis of a Language Learning App (Wing Yee and Jennifer Ho).- Section 4: Researching Virtual Learning Sites.- Chapter 12: Handling Languaging During Empirical Research: Ethnography as Action in and A §04§crossTime and Physical-Virtual Sites (Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Giulia Messina Dahlberg and Annaliina Gynne).- Chapter 13: On Methodology and the Educational Services: Reflections on the ViLS Contributions (Ylva Lindberg).§