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Amy Stornaiuolo

@amystorn.bsky.social

Professor of literacy studies at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, studying digital literacies, youth media, & writing; lover of beaches & dystopian fiction (vs real dystopias); triple scorpio; she/hers

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Ohhhh, looks so good!! Damn, will be at a writing retreat in the Dolomites that week!!

29.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agree--that was such a great idea Sarah!

29.10.2025 00:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm wondering if something like 'share something surprising from one of your recent projects' or 'bring a reading to share that shifted your thinking recently' or 'writing advice you wish you learned a long time ago/best writing practices you have adopted' might invite people into sharing mode?

29.10.2025 00:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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a man says i 'm inviting myself while standing in front of a car ALT: a man says i 'm inviting myself while standing in front of a car
29.10.2025 00:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A5: I wonder if we can have cross-over chats/gatherings that bring #literacies together with other people, conferences, organizations etc (lsp, civics of technologies)? Kind of link @clarabbott.bsky.social's idea about 'bring a friend' but bigger scale?

29.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 7    📌 0

Love this idea Jon - some of the best connections for me happened at those!

29.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I agree! This is such an important dimension of these #literacies chats for me!

29.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

A3: #literacies chats have opened me up to new scholarship in ways I did not anticipate. I am more of a lurker on social media, but reading those chats, even later, always led me to more scholarship that expanded my thinking. I appreciated the intentionality of the hosts in bringing people together

29.10.2025 00:29 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

#literacies rockstars, truly!

29.10.2025 00:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I agree - this is one of the most impactful #literacies dimensions: getting to know people online and then connecting in person (and you already have a community at these big conferences)!

29.10.2025 00:25 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

OMG I **still** think about that Pecha Kucha presentation, it was epic!! #literacies

29.10.2025 00:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, I remember that #literacies chat - is that, is that...the beginning!!?!

29.10.2025 00:18 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A1: I can't remember! I know it was when @anna-phd.bsky.social looped me in during the early days, maybe 2012 on the site that shall not be named? More heavily when we both got involved in the Writing & Literacies SIG leadership!

29.10.2025 00:11 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, so excited to be at the homecoming!

29.10.2025 00:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi #literacies folks. Amy Stornaiuolo, literacy professor at the University of Pennsylvania here!

29.10.2025 00:04 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Text from the Table of the Contents. List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments. Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia PART I — Histories New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

Text from the Table of the Contents. List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments. Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia PART I — Histories New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

Table of contents, continued. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson PART II - Pedagogies Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

Table of contents, continued. Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson PART II - Pedagogies Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

Table of contents, continued. Part 3 - Possibilities As We May Mark by Remi Kalir Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez Index

Table of contents, continued. Part 3 - Possibilities As We May Mark by Remi Kalir Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly) Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez Index

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉

It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.

www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

27.06.2025 19:29 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1
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I wanted to share the good news that I've been promoted to full professor and am beginning a year's sabbatical with a heavenly women's writing retreat in Amorgos. Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way! You all made it possible.

25.06.2025 16:20 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ABSTRACT This paper discusses critical and participatory approaches to screencapture to account for the layered, embodied, and mobile ways people work with/across screens in a postdigital era. While screencapture methods have been a mainstay of multimodal, video- based research in education, there has been less theorizing of screens as active participants in broader sociotechnical assemblages. In this paper, we theorize screencapture from a sociomaterial lens that frames all activity as comprised of human and technological actors acting as dynamic participants in sociotechnical systems. We propose three approaches to screencapture – self-generated screencapture video, researcher-generated screencapture, and elicited screencapture – as a heuristic for researchers to look at and not through screens. Through three case study examples of each approach to screencapture, we trace five critical considerations: ethics, positionality, ephemerality, layering, and co-construction. These critical considerations emerge differently across the three approaches to screencapture, helping researchers challenge extractive or voyeuristic procedures for recording screens in educational research

ABSTRACT This paper discusses critical and participatory approaches to screencapture to account for the layered, embodied, and mobile ways people work with/across screens in a postdigital era. While screencapture methods have been a mainstay of multimodal, video- based research in education, there has been less theorizing of screens as active participants in broader sociotechnical assemblages. In this paper, we theorize screencapture from a sociomaterial lens that frames all activity as comprised of human and technological actors acting as dynamic participants in sociotechnical systems. We propose three approaches to screencapture – self-generated screencapture video, researcher-generated screencapture, and elicited screencapture – as a heuristic for researchers to look at and not through screens. Through three case study examples of each approach to screencapture, we trace five critical considerations: ethics, positionality, ephemerality, layering, and co-construction. These critical considerations emerge differently across the three approaches to screencapture, helping researchers challenge extractive or voyeuristic procedures for recording screens in educational research

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this article @amystorn.bsky.social & @rabani.bsky.social invite researchers to engage screencapture not only as a mode of data collection but as a site of inquiry – one that reflects, mediates, and conditions practice.

Read more: tinyurl.com/3rj9s8fj

06.06.2025 11:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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From Superheroes to Taylor Swift: Using Students’ Passions to Ignite Learning By inviting students to dissect the texts they love—from music lyrics to horror films—teachers are unlocking deeper engagement and critical literacy skills.

Love this Edutopia article by @cberwick.bsky.social ‪‪on igniting student passions! Sage quotes from @amystorn.bsky.social & @anterobot.bsky.social. Examples from ELA teachers using fandoms! Nice shout out for @karismjones.bsky.social & my book! #literacies #iteachEnglish tinyurl.com/2s4r66rs

05.06.2025 13:38 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 3
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People engage/ w screens regularly in their everyday lives-recording & sharing is routine practice. @amystorn.bsky.social & I offer 3 approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens. bit.ly/3ZdTEBH - Message if you are unable to access this #digitalmethods #educationresearch

02.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
"Economic Blackout on February 28, 2025 Take Part & Share the News If you haven't heard there will be an economic blackout Feb 28th, nationwide. This means don't buy anything unless it's from a small business: No gas, no fast food, and definitely nothing from places like Target, Walmart, or Amazon. Get the word out! We want THEM to see that WE have the power. We will start with 1 day, then 3, then specific companies until our message is heart. Please spread the word! Thank you!"

"Economic Blackout on February 28, 2025 Take Part & Share the News If you haven't heard there will be an economic blackout Feb 28th, nationwide. This means don't buy anything unless it's from a small business: No gas, no fast food, and definitely nothing from places like Target, Walmart, or Amazon. Get the word out! We want THEM to see that WE have the power. We will start with 1 day, then 3, then specific companies until our message is heart. Please spread the word! Thank you!"

Hey, I'm going to do this, and I hope you will too. Not because I think a one day pause will be a devastating blow, but because coordinated action takes practice, and if you don't do the small stuff, you will have a harder time gearing up for the big stuff.

23.02.2025 03:48 — 👍 407    🔁 214    💬 7    📌 29

Just boosting!

08.12.2024 13:38 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me me me!!

27.11.2024 16:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi #NCTE friends! If you are here, please come by our social from 545-715 on 2nd floor (near 211). Food and drinks and cool resources!

23.11.2024 22:31 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great! Thanks Anna (add me!)

13.11.2024 03:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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