The inherently social nature of literacies is the most evident in collaborative text production. However, the status of collaborative literacies, the value attached to them, and their regulation vary both across and within institutions. Drawing on data from two contrasting institutional contexts, this talk will explore institutional frames of collaborative text production and their consequences for writers.
The inherently social nature of literacies is the most evident in collaborative text production. However, the status of collaborative literacies, the value attached to them, and their regulation vary both across and within institutions. In some institutional contexts joint text production is hailed and encouraged, while in others it is treated with suspicion. Drawing on data from two contrasting institutional contexts, a higher education context, where literacies are highly regulated and evaluated, and a small non-government organisation in the area of culture, where collaborative text production is the norm, this talk will examine the factors surrounding the scope for and status of collaborative literacies across and within these institutions, and the related notions of authorship, originality and expertise in collaborative writing. More broadly, the talk will explore the institutional frames of collaborative text production and their consequences for writers.
