![]() ![]() ![]() I examine the ways that their literacy practices reveal local, national, and global relationships and processes. My research seeks to address questions about the role of multimodal and/or digital literacies in Cambodian (Ethnic Khmer) youth’s production and maintenance of these transnational connections across space and over time, particularly with regard to identity construction, performance, and transformation. Newer technologies and communication devices allow the youth to remain active in their heritage language and culture, and – through social networks – to interact with globalized youth culture. Today’s generation of Cambodian American youth are growing up in communities with more transnational connections than in the past. Rithy posts a message on an Internet site, “putting both of my hands high to the sky saying ‘Khmer Pride.'” Samaly watches a YouTube video of a professional Cambodian dance troupe performing “The Coconut Dance,” and Panat1 creates his own video game character based on the Japanese anime Dragonball Z. Theresa McGinnis, EdD, Associate Professor of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership, Hofstra University ![]()
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