Digital Literacy in a Sociomaterial Perspective

This paper is based on qualitative research in a Danish Year 6 classroom during a multimodal literacy workshop where I observed students working with paper, computer, scissors, pencils and printers. Situated in sociomaterial theory the aim is to rethink writing and writing research. Through the concepts of intra-activity, enacted agency, and writing as translingual assemblage, I put to work data on students making a fashion magazine to demonstrate how dominant perspectives in literacy education are not adequate when conceptualizing literacy as intra-active and translingual assemblage. I demonstrate analysis and discuss how a posthuman approach can capture and understand how bodies, languages, materials, technologies, ideas, time, and space are all intra-actively producing literacies.