Crossmodal Literacies
in Youth Media Arts
Korina M. Jocson
Stanford University
University of Texas, Austin - June 7, 2008
K. Jocson
Literacy, Youth and New Media
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what counts as literacy
youth media arts and culture
from multimodal to crossmodal
texts, intertexts, (g)localities
practice, research, and directions
K. Jocson
Literacy, Youth and New Media
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what counts as literacy
youth media arts and culture
from multimodal to crossmodal
texts, intertexts, (g)localities
practice, research, and directions
K. Jocson
K. Jocson
Toward the Crossmodal
• original, audio , stage, video (link)
K. Jocson
My glares burn through her.
And I’m sure that such actions aren’t foreign to her
because the essence of her beauty is, well, the essence of beauty.
And in the presence of this higher being,
the weakness of my masculinity kicks in,
causing me to personify my wannabe big-baller, shot-caller,
God’s gift to the female species with shiny suit wrapping rapping like,
“Yo, what’s crackin shorty how you livin’ what’s your sign what’s your size I dig your
style, yo.”
Now, this girl was no fool.
She gives me a dirty look with the quickness like,
“Boy, you must be stupid.” so I’m looking at myself,
“Boy, you must be stupid.” But looking upon her I am kinda feelin’ her style.
So I try again.
But, instead of addressing her properly, I blurt out one of my fake-ass playalistic lines
like, “Gurl, you must be a traffic ticket cuz you got fine written all over you.”
Now, she’s trying to leave and I’m trying to keep her here.
So at a final attempt, I utter, “Gurl, what is your ethnic makeup?”
At this point, her glare was scorching through me, and somehow she manages to make
her brown eyes resemble some kinda brown fire or something,
but there’s no snap or head movement, no palm to face, click of tongue,
middle finger, roll of eyes, twist of lips, or girl power chant.
She just glares through me with these burning eyes and her gaze grabs you by the
throat.
She says, “Ethnic makeup?”…
K. Jocson
Toward the Crossmodal
• original, audio , stage, video (link)
• new media times
• arts education and literacies in/out
schools
• society and civic engagement (link)
K. Jocson
K. Jocson