David Barton

Lancaster University, Linguistics and English Language, Faculty Member

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I am Professor of Language and Literacy and now 'Life President' of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk. I am currently interested in all aspects of language online, including the interaction of words and images, multilingual issues, changes to vernacular practices and learning. In February 2015 we started a 2 year ESRC project on Academics Writing. I am also writing about methodology, especially ethnographic approaches to literacy research. Also language and photography.

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Linguagem online : textos e práticas digitais

by David Barton and Carmen Lee

Em Linguagem online: textos e práticas digitais, David Barton e Carmen Lee investigam o impacto d... more Em Linguagem online: textos e práticas digitais, David Barton e Carmen Lee investigam o impacto do mundo online sobre os estudos da linguagem. Os efeitos do uso da linguagem no mundo digital podem ser vistos em todos os aspectos dos estudos linguísticos; e são necessárias novas formas de pesquisar a área. Neste livro, os autores olham a linguagem online de várias perspectivas, proporcionando uma sólida base teórica, um esboço dos principais conceitos e orientações práticas para fazer pesquisa. Os capítulos abordam temas da atualidade, incluindo a relação entre linguagem online e multilinguismo, identidade, educação e multimodalidade, e concluem com um olhar sobre as maneiras de investigar o uso da linguagem online. Ao longo do livro são dados muitos exemplos, a partir de uma variedade de plataformas digitais de diferentes línguas, incluindo chinês e inglês. Escrito num estilo claro e acessível, este livro é leitura essencial como introdução aos estudos da linguagem online e obra fundamental para alunos de graduação e pós-graduação nas áreas de novas mídias, letramento e multimodalidade nos cursos de letras e linguística.

Researching Language and Social Media

by David Barton and Johnny Unger

Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices

by David Barton and Carmen Lee

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Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community

Barton, D. & M. Hamilton, Local Literacies: Reading And Writing In One Community, London and New ... more

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The anthropology of writing: Understanding textually mediated worlds

Barton, D. & U. Papen (eds.) (2010) The anthropology of writing. London: Continuum/ Bloomsbury.

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Improving learning in college: Rethinking literacies across the curriculum

by David Barton, Greg Mannion, and Candice Satchwell

Perspectives des politiques agricoles en Afrique du Nord (Options méditerranéennes, série B : Étu... more Perspectives des politiques agricoles en Afrique du Nord (Options méditerranéennes, série B : Études et Recherches 2009 N° 64) La crise alimentaire mondiale des années 2007-2008 n'a pas épargné l'Afrique du Nord. Elle n'a fait qu'y révéler des fragilités structurelles ...

Improving learning in college: Rethinking literacies across the curriculum

by M. Martin-jones, Greg Mannion, David Barton, and Candice Satchwell

... College Rethinking literacies across the curriculum Roz Ivanicˇ, Richard Edwards, David Barto... more

Literacy: An introduction to the ecology of written language

Barton, D., Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994... more

Literacy, Lives and Learning

This book is part of the Routledge &amp;#x27;Literacies&amp;#x27; series and gives a deta... more This book is part of the Routledge &amp;#x27;Literacies&amp;#x27; series and gives a detailed examination of language, literacy and numeracy as social practices, with a focus on the relationship between people&amp;#x27;s lives and their engagement in learning. The chapters follow the rationale, ...

Beyond communities of practice: Language, power and social context

... This is expressed in different ways in different chapters (risk and stigma, diversity, equity... more

Models of Adult Learning

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Situated literacies: Reading and writing in context

Page 1. Situated Literacies Reading and writing in context Edited by David Barton, Mary Hamilton ... more

Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 2000

STUDIES IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY Editors Brian Street Ludo Verhoeven King&amp;amp;#x2... more

Sustaining local literacies

Worlds of literacy

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Worlds of Literacy/Edited by Mary Hamilton, Da... more

Writing in the Community

Papers by David Barton

The role of relationships in academic writing and identity

This presentation discusses findings from an ERSC-funded research project investigating the writi... more This presentation discusses findings from an ERSC-funded research project investigating the writing practices of academics at three English universities. The data drawn on in this paper relate specifically to the ways in which digital technologies around writing bring issues of academic identity into sharp focus. Academics have always participated in disciplinary networks, but the gradual shift towards &quot;social scholarship&quot; (Greenhow &amp; Gleason, 2014), in which social networking is part of the research, writing and publishing process, has amplified the need for connectedness. Digitisation has brought not only greater opportunities for collaborative writing, but also the expectation that academics will engage in practices such as maintaining online profiles and sharing output on digital forums. Some have argued that these activities risk crowding out the quiet time needed to get scholarly writing done and that they represent a potential threat to academics&#39; sense of identity. Drawing on a social practice approach to literacy (Barton &amp; Hamilton, 2000), interviews were conducted with academics from three different disciplines and institutions. These focused on the detailed processes and practices involved in academic writing, including the role of digital technologies and relationships with others in text production. Although scholarly writing is often characterised as a solitary activity, a central aspect of almost all the writing processes in this study was the importance of relationships. More and faster collaborative writing was facilitated by digital platforms such as email, Skype, and file-sharing software. However, relationships played a pivotal role even in forms of writing that were, prima facie, solo endeavours. For example, during periods of writing, informal discussions with colleagues or friends, either face-to-face or via online professional networks, could be extremely productive. Similarly, connecting with others by sharing work online was described as an important part of participants’ scholarly identity. In this sense, rather than distracting from the work of writing, relationships with others were highly valued and central to the scholarly identity our participants held dear. These findings highlight the centrality of writing relationships in academic identity and the role of digital technologies in enabling them.

Academics Writing

Academics Writing, 2019

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, trans... more Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic profession itself is reconfigured through new forms of governance and accountability, increasing use of digital resources, and the internationalisation of higher education. Through detailed studies of writing in the daily life of academics in different disciplines and in different institutions, this book explores: - the space and time of academic writing; - tensions between disciplines and institutions around genres of writing; - the diversity of stances adopted towards the tools and technologies of writing, and towards engagement with social media; and - the importance of relationships and collaboration with others, in writing and in ongoing learning in a context of constant change. Drawing out implications of the work for academics, university management, professional training, and policy, Academics Writing: The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation is key reading for anyone studying or researching writing, academic support, and development within education and applied linguistics.

Researching writing across the lifespan: The value of literacy studies for highlighting social and contextual aspects of change

Writing & Pedagogy, 2019

This paper highlights the importance, when researching writing across the lifespan, of addressing... more This paper highlights the importance, when researching writing across the lifespan, of addressing a range of aspects of social context which change over time, particularly focusing on tools, values, relationships and identities. It illustrates this argument by drawing on a range of empirical studies exploring different aspects of writing in university settings, working with adults at a range of levels from Masters through doctoral study to academics' working lives, and reflects on the implications of this research for lifespan writing studies more generally. The projects drawn on include a study of multimodal feedback on postgraduate student writing and students' responses to this; a detailed study of academics' writing practices in the context of structural changes in Higher Education; and an interview study with PhD students participating in writing retreats, reflecting on their writing experiences. Drawing on findings from this work, we argue that shifts in material, social and institutional dimensions of context have a significant impact on what individuals write and on the writing practices that they develop. We particularly highlight the role of changing tools for writing and values around writing, and the importance of transformations in identity and relationships. We argue that the tradition of literacy studies research, drawn on by all the projects described in this paper, provides the theoretical and methodological resources to approach such aspects of academic writing development across the lifespan, by adopting a holistic perspective on writing which locates writing as situated practice and thereby provides insight into these social and contextual influences.

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Negotiating tensions around new forms of academic writing

Discourse, Context & Media, 2018

Almost every aspect of an academic's role involves specialised forms of writing, and the range of... more Almost every aspect of an academic's role involves specialised forms of writing, and the range of digital platforms used to produce this has increased. Core genres such as the journal article and monograph remain central, but the ways they are now commonly produced via file-sharing software and online submission systems are changing them. Digital media also allows academics to stay up to date with their field, connect with others, and share research with wider audiences. Furthermore, academics are increasingly expected to maintain online identities via academic networking sites, and to create and disseminate knowledge via hybrid genres such as tweets and blogs. However, these platforms also represent a potential threat to academics' values and sense of identity. This paper reports on an ESRC funded research project investigating the writing practices of academics across different disciplines at three English universities. Through academics' accounts of their experience with and feelings about the role of digital media in their professional writing, this paper explores the factors that complicate their engagement with new genres of writing. The findings reveal a tension between the values of social media, which see knowledge as user-generated and decentralised, and the forms of knowledge creation that are rewarded in academia.

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