Young Authors Online: Exploring the Meaning Making Process Through Positionings in Place and Space

Identity studies in education are germane to interpreting how adolescent writers perceive their lives, culture, and, in literacy, their schooling and educational goals. Positioning theory analysis helps reveal both tacit and explicit patterns of meaning making as authors collaborate and craft creative writing artifacts shared as blog posts. In this study of interactions around the digital writing of young authors aged 12 to 16 years,...