Julia Voss

  

• Graduate student
• Ohio State University

I'm a PhD candidate in the English Department working on a dissertation that looks at how individuals approach digital literacy tasks. I’m looking especially at how individuals draw together material and intellectual resources from the various social networks they’re part of, how individuals work in groups to accumulate these kinds of literacy resources and to divide up task responsibilities, and how the physical and cultural characteristics of the spaces in which people work affect their digital composing practices. As a teacher, I’ve become increasingly interested in multi-literacies and the need to move toward teaching literacy in the “holistic” way advocated by composition scholar Jody Shipka, who argues that learning how, when, and why to compose in a variety of physical and virtual media is the central literacy development task for students in the 21st century.